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Identity

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DEEPFAKES

There are no selves

Protecting our identities

The self and the future

Sense of identity

CHANGING YOURSELF

TO BOLDLY GO (AND NOT COME BACK)

The Ship of Theseus

Social (media) identity

Identity

Shifting identity

Multiple identities

VIRTUAL IDENTITY

Digital souls

THE CLOTHED SOUL

Forgetting yourself

Identity

The end of forgetting

Out of your mind

Identity

The colour of my language

Ethnic identity

WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE?

ARE YOU WEIRD?

Identity • What is identity? How do we define ourselves? Here are six thinkers’ views on who we are and what makes us ‘us’.

Animal identity

Housed in separate identities

I Am

Our library • Food for thought from the New Philosopher library. We discover books that can change the way you view the world.

The labyrinth of personal IDENTITY

Wowing the crowd • Here we present the winners of New Philosopher Writers’ Award XXXI: Space. Once more, we received a large number of entries from all around the world, from Norway to the US to Australia to Switzerland. In first place is planetary sciences academic Geoffrey Batt for “Wowing the crowd” and in second place is mathematical physicist Magdalena Kersting for “Without and within”.

Spaces without and within

Writers' award

Documentaries • To view the documentaries below and many others, visit newphilosopher.com/videos/

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Video: Digital avatars and fake news

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