AC Grayling
AC Grayling is one of Britain’s best-known humanist philosophers. He is the author of many books, including What is Good? (2003), Against All Gods (2007) and The Good Book (2011). He is also Master of the New College of the Humanities.
Articles by AC Grayling
Book review: Learning to Live: Philosophy for Beginners by Luc Ferry
AC Grayling learns to live without God
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Book Review: On Evil by Terry Eagleton
Beneath the diaphanous veil of ambiguity, the wit and the nuance-sense Terry Eagleton fails to get to the real heart of darkness, says AC Grayling
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Head to head
When we heard that Tzvetan Todorov, author of In Defence of the Enlightenment, was coming to London we couldn’t resist getting him together with our very own contemporary philosophe, AC Grayling, to discuss the new book and the legacy of the great 18th-century republic of letters
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How to defend the Enlightenment
A full transcript of the discussion between Anthony Grayling and Tzvetan Todorov in London, December 2009
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Book Review: Questions of Truth: God, Science and Belief by John Polkinghorne and Nicholas Beale
AC Grayling rips into the latest attempt to bridge the God-science gap
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Bolus of nonsense
In the third part of our their exchange, AC Grayling responds to Steve Fuller’s defence of his book Dissent over Descent
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Origin of the specious
AC Grayling dissects Steve Fuller's defence of Intelligent Design
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Counterknowledge by Damian Thomson
AC Grayling reviews a Catholic attack on nonsense
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The “New Atheists” are responding to provocation, not mounting an arbitrary attack
On behalf of the New Atheists AC Grayling blasts back at Theodore Dalrymple
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Non-Violence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea by Mark Kurlansky
AC Grayling explores the history of non-violence
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Bad vibrations
AC Grayling reports on the battle for the soul of a science
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Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism by Andrew Petto & Laurie Godfrey (eds)
AC Grayling cheers as the scientists vanquish Intelligent Design
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Through the looking glass
AC Grayling finds that in the work of leading philosopher John Gray, everything is the wrong way round and upside down
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Reasonable bounds
Continuing our series reclaiming thinkers for humanism, AC Grayling celebrates Immanuel Kant
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…or is that just what we could do without?
We have all the rituals we need, counters AC Grayling
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Classic Intellectual
AC Grayling admires Umberto Eco's new opus
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Critical humanism
Book Review: AC Grayling on Hope and Memory by Tzvetan Todorov
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Freedom From Ghosts
Tzvetan Todorov's Imperfect Garden, reviewed by AC Grayling
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Diary: Darwin’s heaven
AC Grayling comes face to face with evolution in the Galapagos
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