The Most Famous
PHILOSOPHERS from Zambia
This page contains a list of the greatest Zambian Philosophers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,267 Philosophers, NaN of which were born in Zambia. This makes Zambia the birth place of the 0th most number of Philosophers.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Zambian Philosophers of all time. This list of famous Zambian Philosophers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. A. C. Grayling (b. 1949)
With an HPI of 37.79, A. C. Grayling is the most famous Zambian Philosopher. His biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Anthony Clifford Grayling (; born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author. He was born in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) and spent most of his childhood there and in Nyasaland (now Malawi). In 2011 he founded and became the first Master of New College of the Humanities (now Northeastern University London), 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 supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught. 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), The Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind (2016) and Democracy and its Crises (2017). Grayling 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 the Royal Society of Arts. For a number of years he was a columnist for The Guardian newspaper, and presented the BBC World Service series Exchanges at the Frontier on science and society. Grayling was a director and contributor at Prospect magazine from its foundation until 2016. He is a vice-president of Humanists UK, honorary associate of the National Secular Society, and Patron of the Defence Humanists. His main academic interests lie in epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophical logic and he has published works in these subjects. His political affiliations lie on the centre-left, and he has defended human rights and politically liberal values in print and by activism. He is associated in Britain with other New Atheists. He frequently appears in British media discussing philosophy and public affairs. In his book, Democracy and Its Crisis, Grayling argues that voting systems must be reformed to prevent certain results, such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Zambian philosophers born between 1949 and 1949. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Zambian philosophers include A. C. Grayling. As of April 2024, 1 new Zambian philosophers have been added to Pantheon including A. C. Grayling.