Author: Peter Stone
Peter Stone is head of the Political Science Department at Trinity College Dublin. He also serves as president of the Political Studies Association of
Ireland (PSAI) and has been active in the Bertrand Russell Society (BRS) for many years. With Tim Madigan, he is coeditor of Bertrand Russell: Public
Intellectual (Tiger Bark Press), a revised edition of which was published in 2021.
A Humanist from the Humanities
Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic, by Stanley Corngold (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-691-16501-1). 744 pp. Hardcover, $39.95. Within the world of atheists, humanists, and freethinkers, there are some who take inspiration from the world of science and mathematics and others who take it from the arts and humanities. The former group includes …