A. C. Grayling
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A. C. Grayling CBE |
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At the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival
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| Master of the New College of the Humanities | |||
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Assumed office 2011 |
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Anthony Clifford Grayling 3 April 1949 Luanshya, Northern Rhodesia |
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| Nationality | British | ||
| Spouse(s) | Katie Hickman | ||
| Children | One son, two daughters | ||
| Residence | London, England | ||
| Education | BA (Sussex), BA (London), MA (Sussex), DPhil (Oxon) | ||
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University of Sussex University of London external programme Magdalen College, Oxford |
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| Occupation | Philosopher | ||
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| Website | www |
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| Born | Anthony Clifford Grayling |
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University of Sussex University of London external programme Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
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Main interests
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History of ideas, ethics |
Anthony Clifford Grayling CBE (/ˈɡreɪlɪŋ/; born 3 April 1949), usually known as A. C. Grayling, is a philosopher and author. He was born in the British expatriate community in Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Malawi. 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 fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
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), and The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (2016). He was a Trustee of the London Library and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. For a number of years he was a columnist on The Guardian newspaper, and presented the BBC World Service series ‘Exchanges At the Frontier’ on science and society. He has lectured in the United States, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Singapore and Spain. In 2013 he was awarded the Forkosch Literary Prize, and in 2015 he received the Bertrand Russell Award.
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