Anthony Clifford "A. C." Grayling is a British philosopher. In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities, an independent undergraduate college in London. Until June 2011, he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London, where he taught from 1991. He is also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He is a director and contributor at Prospect Magazine, as well as a Vice President of the British Humanist Association. His main academic interests lie in epistemology, metaphysics and philosophical logic. He has described himself as "a man of the left" and is associated in Britain with the new atheism movement, and is sometimes described as the 'Fifth Horseman of New Atheism'. He appears in the British media discussing philosophy.
Series
Books
War
An Enquiry
2017
Democracy and Its Crisis
2017
The Choice Of Hercules
Pleasure, Duty And The Good Life In The 21st Century
2007
Wittgenstein
A Very Short Introduction
1988
The Meaning of Things
Applying Philosophy to Life
2001
The Challenge of Things
Thinking Through Troubled Times
2015
For the Good of the World
Why Our Planet's Crises Need Global Agreement Now
2022
Russell
A Very Short Introduction
1996
Grace
2008
To Set Prometheus Free
Essays on Religion, Reason and Humanity
2009
Truth, Meaning and Realism
Essays in the Philosophy of Thought
2007
The Good State
On the Principles of Democracy
2020
Among the Dead Cities
Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?
2006
What is Good?
The Search for the Best Way to Live
2003
The Mystery of Things
2004
Life, Sex and Ideas
2001
Thinking of Answers
Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life
2010
Philosophy 2
Further through the Subject
1999
The God Argument
The Case Against Religion and for Humanism
2013
The Age of Genius
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
2016
Ideas That Matter
The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century
2008
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge
2008
An Introduction to Philosophical Logic
1982
Liberty in the Age of Terror
A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values
2009
Philosophy and Life
2023
The History of Philosophy
2019
The Heart of Things
Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
2005
The Frontiers of Knowledge
2021
Berkeley
The Central Arguments.
1986
Against All Gods
Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness
2007
The Art of Always Being Right
The 38 Subtle Ways of Persuation
2012
The Form of Things
Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty
2006
Toward the Light of Liberty
2007
The Quarrel Of The Age
The Life And Times Of William Hazlitt
2000
Descartes
2008
Friendship
2013
The Good Book
A Humanist Bible
2011
Philosophy
A Guide through the Subject
1995
Who Owns the Moon?
In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space
2024
