The International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) was founded in Amsterdam in 1952. Based in London, it is an international umbrella organization which embraces humanist, atheist, rationalist, secularist, skeptic, laique, ethical cultural, freethought and similar views and causes. It maintains a vision of a humanist world “in which human rights are respected and everyone is […]

The National Secular Society, based in London, works in the United Kingdom and Europe for the separation of religion and state and promotes secularism as the best means to create a society in all which people of all religions or none can live together fairly and cohesively.

Nigel Warburton is lecturer in philosophy at the Open University. He has written several books on philosophy and he was a founding member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.

Kate Soper is a British philosopher. She has published widely on environmental philosophy, aesthetics of nature, theory of needs and consumption and cultural theory. She is the author of Humanism and Anti-Humanism (Hutchinson, 1986). She is a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.

Jonathan Rée is a writer, philosopher and historian. He has written several books and his writing has appeared in several major British publications. He is an atheist and secularist but he thinks that religious traditions contain far more intelligence and insight than the brasher kinds of humanist give them credit for. He is a member […]

Richard Norman is a professor emeritus of moral philosophy at the University of Kent. He is the author of On Humanism (Routledge, 2004) and a founding member of Humanist Philosophers Group.

Peter Millican is the Gilbert Ryle Fellow and Professor of Philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford University. His research focuses on the life and work of Scottish philosopher David Hume,philosophy’s connections to politics, society, religion and science and the creationism versus evolution debate. He is a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.

Stephen McLeod is a professor of philosophy at the University of Liverpool. His interests include logic, philosophy of language, ethics, history of modern philosophy and metaphysics. He is a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.

Sandra Marshall is a professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Stirling. She is interested in research which connects legal, political and social philosophy. She is a member of the Humanist Philosophers Group.