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A C Grayling Essay Collection

A C Grayling is a Philosophy professor at the University of London and Oxford -  and a first rate contemporary philosopher, writer and thinker.

Grayling is a Bertrand Russell scholar who has been greatly influenced by Russell's philosophy and writing style.

 

   The Essays: ***Click on the links below***

 

The Uses of Philosophy 

Christianity

Gotta Have Faith

Can an Atheist be a Fundamentalist?

Special Treatment of Religion

Intelligent Design: Truth and Betrayal

Resurrection Myths

The Book of Job

Miracles, Prophecy and Blasphemy 

Holy Sites and Unholy Rows

Schism

Sin

Reason and Education

Reason Lost

Reason and Opinion

Information

Inquiry

Racism and Speciesism

Revenge

Marriage  

Liberty 

War 

Alien Abductions 

Science, Anti-Science and the Future of Humanity 

Self Interest 

Freedom of Speech 

Good Men in a Mad Bad World 

Facts and Fairy Dust 

Tome Truths 

Force for Evil 

On Voltaire 

Humanism & Religion 

New Age Religion 

Two Essays on Charles Darwin 

Precept or Example

Science and Modern Times

Terrorism and Religious Hatred                

                                           

A C Grayling Bio

Anthony Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited many books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are a biography of William Hazlitt and a collection of essays. For several years he wrote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper and is a regular reviewer for the Literary Review and the Financial Times. He also often writes for the Observer, Economist, Times Literary Supplement, Independent on Sunday and New Statesman, and is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. He is the Editor of Online Review London, 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 has been involved in UN human rights initiative. Anthony Grayling is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 2003 was a Booker Prize judge.

 

A C Grayling is a Philosophy professor at the University of London and Oxford -  and a first rate contemporary philosopher, writer and thinker. He has a personal web site at http://www.acgrayling.com

 

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