Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford is a philosopher, author, and widely published essayist. His latest book is How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration.
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Russell Blackford
Russell Blackford is a philosopher, literary critic, legal scholar, and widely published essayist and commentator. He has an honorary appointment at the University of Newcastle as Conjoint Senior Lecturer in Philosophy.
Russell has enjoyed a distinguished career in academia, public policy management, and the legal profession. Since the early 1980s, he has also built an international career as a writer and editor. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction, as well as book chapters, articles, op-eds, short stories, and book reviews. His most recent books are The Tyranny of Opinion: Conformity and the Future of Liberalism (2019), At the Dawn of a Great Transition: The Question of Radical Enhancement, and (most recently) How We Became Post-Liberal: The Rise and Fall of Toleration (2024), both published by Bloomsbury.
For his contributions to humanist thought, Russell was inducted in 2014 into the International Academy of Humanism.
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