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Anthony Grayling CBE, MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of the New College
of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of
London. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other
subjects; among his most recent are "The Good Book", "Ideas That Matter",
"Liberty in the Age of Terror" and "To Set Prometheus Free". For several years
he wrote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper and a column for the
Times. He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer,
Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and New
Statesman, and is an equally frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the
World Service. He writes the "Thinking Read" column for the Barnes and Noble
Review in New York, is the Editor of Online Review London, and a Contributing
Editor of Prospect magazine.
In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and
for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British
philosophical association, the Aristotelian Society. He is a past chairman of
June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China, and is a representative
to the UN Human Rights Council for the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
He is a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, the Patron of the
United Kingdom Armed Forces Humanist Association, a patron of Dignity in Dying,
and an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.
Anthony Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years, and
a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.
He has served as a Trustee of the London Library and a board member of the
Society of Authors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2003 he was a Man Booker Prize judge, in
2010 was a judge of the Art Fund prize, and in 2011 the Wellcome Book Prize. He
was the chairman of the 2014 Man Booker Prize.
He supports a number of charities including Plan UK, Greenpeace, Médecins Sans
Frontières, Amnesty International and Freedom from Torture. He is also a sponsor
of Rogbonko School in Sierra Leone.
His latest books are "War: An Enquiry" (Yale March 2017) and "Democracy and its
Crisis" (Oneworld August 2017).

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interviewed by Sam Harris 'Examined Lives' - a review by AC Grayling On 'The God
Argument' - audio interview Bad Education, Festival of Dangerous Ideas 2015
Euphoria will fade, but hope springs eternal - The Independent 'Believers are
away with the fairies' - The Telegraph Spare a thought for philosophy -
interview with AC Grayling - The Humanist On 'The God Argument' - The Age
Humanism's faith in reason represents our best hope - The Guardian How to defend
the Enlightenment - a conversation with Tzvetan Todorov AC Grayling on John Gray
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and work of Michel de Montaigne - radio broadcast On growing up, discovering
philosophy and the meaning of life - The Indepenent AC Grayling on Desert Island
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Guardian On contemporary dance - Timeout ABC Radio interview about 'The Choice
of Hercules' 'The empty name of God' - New Statesman Debate: The World Would Be
Better Off Without Religion 'Darwin, Humanism and Science' - A lecture on
youtube 'Faith’s last gasp' - Prospect magazine In defense of human free will -
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'The Meaning of Life' - The Freethinker interview Religion in its 'death throes'
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Descriptions - Philosophy Bites podcast Is religion a force for good? - Guardian
podcast Five Minutes With: AC Grayling - BBC video interview Tackling 'The Good
Book'- The Sydney Morning Herald The 'New Atheists' are responding, not
attacking - New Humanist Pressing Questions for our Century - Edge AC Grayling's
Top 5 Non-Religious Books - Slate A. C. Grayling recommends the best books on
Being Good Book review: The Googlization of Everything A biography on Montaigne
- Prospect magazine Book Review: 'On Evil' by Terry Eagleton - New Humanist
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VIDEO MESSAGES

The Unconsidered Life



Darwin, Humanism and science



The Rightful Place of Science



On maternal mortality - UNHRC



On women's rights and Sharia



Atheism, Secularism, Humanism



On 'The God Argument'



On 'The Good Book'



The Good StateOn the Principles of DemocracyOneworld, 2020
The History of PhilosophyAn authoritative history of philosophy covering both
Western & Eastern traditionsViking, 2019
Democracy and Its CrisisThe failure of the best political system we have:
democracyOneworld Publications, 2018
The Age of GeniusThe Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern
MindBloomsbury, 2016
The Challenge of ThingsThinking Through Troubled TimesBloomsbury, 2015
The God ArgumentThe Case Against Religion and for HumanismBloomsbury, 2013
The Good BookA Secular BibleBloomsbury, 2013
Thinking of AnswersQuestions in the Philosophy
of Everyday LifeBloomsbury, 2010
To Set Prometheus FreeReligion, Reason and HumanityOberon, 2009
Ideas That MatterA Personal Guide for the 21st CenturyWeidenfeld, April 2009
Liberty in the Age of TerrorIn Defence of Civil Society and the West's
Enlightenment ValuesBloomsbury, June 2009
Truth, Meaning
and RealismEssays in the Philosophy
of ThoughtContinuum, June 2007
Towards The LightThe Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the
Modern WestBloomsbury, Sep 2007
The Choice Of HerculesDuty, Pleasure and the Good Life in the 21st CenturyWeid.
& Nic. 2007
Against All GodsSix Polemics on Religion and an Essay on KindnessOberon, Feb
2007
Selected papers

Russell, Experience, and the Roots of SciencePerfect Speaker TheoryUnderstanding
RealismRussell's Transcendental Argument in: On The Foundations of
GeometryScepticism and JustificationWittgenstein on Scepticism and Certainty

Extracts from publications

Preface to 'Russell' - Past Masters 1995 Philosophy 1: A Guide Through the
Subject Philosophy 2: Further Through the Subject The Quarrel of the Age: The
life and Times of William Hazlitt The Meaning of Things

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Brexit: Who Benefits? Feb 2017 We Are Angry - Feb 2017 Letter to MPs - Jan 2017
Parliament & EU Referendum - Nov 2016 EU Referendum Not A Mandate - Oct 2016
Letter To MPs - Aug 2016 Open Letter to Theresa May - Aug 2016 Parliament, the
Nation, & Brexit - July 2016

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