A.C. Grayling: Philosophy & the Pandemic

A.C. Grayling, a pre-eminent British philosopher and the author of about 30 books, grapples with philosophy and the pandemic, and discusses how he himself dealt as a nonbeliever with a personal tragedy. Grayling’s books include "What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live", "The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life", "The God Argument" and "The History of Philosophy — Three Millennia of Thought from the West and Beyond." In 2011, he founded the New College of the Humanities in London. Before that he was a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck University in London. A publicly outspoken atheist, he’s vice president of Humanists UK and an honorary associate of the National Secular Society. He frequently appears in British media discussing philosophy and public affairs.

“I just brought a book out called 'The Good State', which is on the principles of democracy, mainly addressing what’s gone wrong that produced the Trump phenomenon and the Brexit phenomenon in my own country,” he tells “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor. “And I have a new book coming out next spring called 'The Frontiers of Knowledge', which actually addresses just the question you've been talking about: Why is it that people don’t really understand science? Why is it that there’s such a big gap between the scientific worldview and other worldviews?”

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