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A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University London. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has written and edited many books, both scholarly and for a general readership, and has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a former Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, Patron of the UK Armed Forces Humanist association, Patron of Dignity in Dying, a former Booker Prize Judge, a Fellow of the Royal Literary Society, a member of the human rights group IHEU represented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva; and much more.
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Grayling, A.C. 1949- (Anthony Grayling, Anthony Clifford Grayling)
PERSONAL:
Born April 3, 1949, in Luanshya, Zambia; son of Henry Clifford and Ursula Adelaide Grayling; married Gabrielle Yvonne Smyth, January, 1970; partner of Katie Hickman; children: (with Smyth) Anthony Jolyon Clifford, Georgina Evelyn Ursula; (with Hickman) Madeleine Catherine Jennifer. Education:University of London, B.A.; University of Sussex, B.A., M.A.; Magdalen College, Oxford, D.Phil., 1981. Hobbies and other interests: Opera, theater, reading, walking, travel.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet St., Bloomsbury, London WC1 7HX, England. E-mail—[email protected].
CAREER:
Philosopher, radio broadcaster, and educator. St. Anne's College, Oxford, lecturer, 1984-91, senior research fellow, 1991-97, supernumerary fellow, 1997—; Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England, lecturer, 1991-98, reader in philosophy, 1998-2005, professor of philosophy, 2005—. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, visiting professor, 1997; visiting lecturer, University of Chi
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A. C. Grayling
English philosopher
Anthony Clifford GraylingCBE FRSA FRSL (; born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland (now Malawi).[1] Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities (now Northeastern University London), an independent undergraduate college in London. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught.[2]
Grayling is the author of about 30 books on philosophy, biography, history of ideas, human rights and ethics, including The Refutation of Scepticism (1985), The Future of Moral Values (1997), Wittgenstein (1992), What Is Good? (2000), The Meaning of Things (2001), The Good Book (2011), The God Argument (2013), The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (2016) and Democracy and its Crises
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