Professor A.C. Grayling joined us at The White House for an intimate lunch to celebrate the launch of his book, For the Good of the World.
Small Giants host an afternoon with philosopher A.C. Grayling to explore solutions to the big challenges that are troubling us today: climate change, technology and justice. In his new book, For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible, Grayling asks: can we agree on a set of values that will allow us to confront the numerous threats we face, or will we continue with disagreements and antipathies.
A.C. Grayling CBE MA DPhil (Oxon) FRSA FRSL is the Founder and Principal of New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, and its Professor of Philosophy. He is also a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is the author of over thirty books of philosophy, biography, history of ideas and essays. He was for a number of years a columnist on the Guardian, the Times, and Prospect magazine. He has contributed to many leading newspapers in the UK, US and Australia, and to BBC radios 4, 3 and the World Service, for which he did the annual Exchanges at the Frontier series.
He has twice been a judge on the Booker Prize, in 2014 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, Patron of the Defence Humanists, Honorary Associate of the Secular Society, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying.
Listen to Berry Liberman and A.C. Grayling: philosopher, meaning maker, humanist
A.C. Grayling: For the Good of the World 2022 keynote at The Wheelers centre
