Great Thinkers
Great Thinkers
Welcome to "Great Thinkers" - where you can engage with the fascinating life stories of those men and women who have helped shape our world and our lives through the range and depth of their ideas, their vision and their imagination. We owe a debt of gratitude to these philosophers, scientists, inventors, writers, teachers and reformers, many of whom endured scepticism and hostility towards their beliefs and innovations:
Want to know more? Please feel free to explore these pages and discover for yourself some impressive and unusual life stories.
Great Thinkers
- Adrienne Rich, Poet, Thinker, Activist - Death in Santa Cruz
- The Mind of Jacques Barzun—A Pedagogy for Writers
- Alfred Kinsey - Zoologist and Expert on Human Sexual Behaviour
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Torn Between Assertion and Submission
- Ernest Hemingway - American Writer of a Great Parable
Great Philosophers
- Bernard Williams - Personal Identity and the Self
- Simone de Beauvoir: One is Not Born a Woman but Becomes One
- Henry Stephens Salt and the Argument for Animal Rights
- Hypatia the Philosopher - Tragic Victim of Male Jealousy
- Bertrand Russell - From Abstract Thought to Direct Action
Great Writers
- Adrienne Rich, Poet, Thinker, Activist - Death in Santa Cruz
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Torn Between Assertion and Submission
- Ernest Hemingway - American Writer of a Great Parable
- Raymond Carver's Dirty Realism - Short Stories to Savour
- Helen Simpson: Short Story Masterpieces of Wit and Satire
topic editor
Janet Cameron -
MA. Cert.Ed. is a retired university lecturer and author of twelve books, women's short fiction and a magazine column.