A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause disc...

A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its signifi...

From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the...

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosoph...

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A. C. Gra...

With the publication of the international bestsellerThe Selfish Genesome thirty years ago, Richard Dawkins powerfully captured a newly emerging way of und...

Examining all the arguments for and against religion and religious belief--across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious an...

"The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." James Madison Our societies, says Anthony Grayl...