A.C. Grayling

A.C. Grayling is a British philosopher and author, a leading public intellectual who has written on a remarkable range of subjects from philosophy, history and reason to ethics and the meaning of life. His works include the sweep of Philosophy and Life and The Frontiers of Knowledge.

Founder and Principal of New College of the Humanities in London, Grayling was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College for more than twenty years. A prolific essayist and commentator, he writes with clarity and moral seriousness, bringing the history of ideas to broad audiences and defending rational humanism in public debate.