Articles by subject: thinkers
- Woman of substance (by Ann Oakley, May/June 2011 )
- Barbara Wootton attended the League of Nations, helped abolish the death penalty and became a magistrate before she was eligible to vote. Ann Oakley reviews a truly remarkable career
- Thinkers: Voltaire (by Ian Davidson, May/June 2010 )
- Fame and fortune allowed the great 18th-century writer to challenge the powers of the state, says Ian Davidson
- Head to head (by AC Grayling, January/February 2010 )
- When we heard that Tzvetan Todorov, author of In Defence of the Enlightenment, was coming to London we couldn’t resist getting him together with our very own contemporary philosophe, AC Grayling, to discuss the new book and the legacy of the great 18th-century republic of letters
- Testament by Jean Meslier (by Colin Brewer, January/February 2010 )
- Colin Brewer admires the last testament of an atheist priest
- Living the life (by Fred Inglis, November/December 2009 )
- Should philosophers practise what they preach? And if so, who would deserve a contemporary nomination? asks Fred Inglis
- Think again (by Nina Power, September/October 2009 )
- Postmodern theory can be pretentious and overblown. But a series of reissues now attempts to reclaim its importance. Nina Power assesses its impact
- Liberty, the Left and Lolita (by Jonathan Rée, July/August 2009 )
- Jonathan Rée assesses the legacy of Isaiah Berlin, a man so clever he could understand his own writing
- Freedom's foghorn (by Roger Davidson, May/June 2009 )
- Happy Birthday Tom Paine: Jan 29. Here's something we prepared earlier...Roger Davidson marks the 200th anniversary of the passing of Tom Paine, an inspirational ego
- Thinkers: Face to face (by Roger Davidson, May/June 2008 )
- Heidegger’s former disciple Emmanuel Levinas, a victim of Nazism, pioneered a humanism for the 21st century argues Roger Davidson
- Thinker: Carl Jung (by Paul Bishop, January/February 2008 )
- Underlying Carl Jung's brand of radical metaphysics, claims Paul Bishop, is a deep vein of rationalism
- Thinkers: William Blake (by Shirley Dent, November/December 2007 )
- William Blake was a confused failure but a great humanist, says Shirley Dent
- Thinker: David Hume (by Julian Baggini, November/December 2006 )
- Julian Baggini celebrates the pragmatic genius of David Hume
- Thinker: William Shakespeare (by Brian McClinton, September/October 2006 )
- Continuing our series of thinkers who have been important for humanism, Brian McClinton puts in a bid for Shakespeare.
- Reasonable bounds (by AC Grayling, July/August 2006 )
- Continuing our series reclaiming thinkers for humanism, AC Grayling celebrates Immanuel Kant
- Pleasure principles (by Peter Cave, May/June 2006 )
- In the second of our series on thinkers who are significant for humanism, Peter Cave marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Stuart Mill
- Spinoza the atheist (by Steven Nadler, March/April 2006 )
- This reconsideration by Steven Nadler is the first in a series on philosophers who have particular, if sometimes unacknowledged, significance for humanists.
- How to defend the Enlightenment (by AC Grayling, Web Exclusive, January 2010)
- A full transcript of the discussion between Anthony Grayling and Tzvetan Todorov in London, December 2009
