Category: Interviews

Interview – ​Pat O’Brien on Humanism in Canada and British Columbia

October 13, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
Pat O’Brien is a Canadian atheist, an activist, and ex-president of Humanist Canada and the British Columbia Humanist Association. The interview was conducted by Scott Jacobsen, of In-Sight Publishing. The interview has been edited for clarity and readability. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: In terms of geography, culture, and language, where does your family background reside O’Brien: Vancouver B.C. […] Read more

An Interview with Dr. Stephen Law

October 1, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How did you become an activist and a philosopher? I have always been very interested in philosophical questions – such as: How can I know other people have minds? Why is there something rather than nothing? What makes things morally right or wrong? However, I was unaware that there was actually a […] Read more

Interview with Professor Anthony Grayling -​ Philosopher and Master, New College of the Humanities

September 29, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How did you become an activist and a philosopher? I became interested in philosophy at an early age, while living in central Africa, where there was much racism and oppression of the local people by the white colonials, and the conjunction of the two made me interested in ideas and in human rights. Was university […] Read more

Interview – Professor Jim Al-Khalili, on Science and Humanism

September 29, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
Professor Jameel Sadik “Jim” Al-Khalili OBE is a British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster. He is currently Professor of Theoretical Physics and Chair in the Public Engagement in Science at the University of Surrey. In this interview, he speaks with Scott Jacobsen about what has driven him to pursue this career, his socially progressive outlook, […] Read more

Interview with ​Terry Sanderson – President, National Secular Society

September 15, 2016 | by | 0 Comments
Terry Sanderson, the President of the National Secular Society –  a British campaigning organisation that promotes secularism and separation of Church and State. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: How’d you become an activist? I became an activist entirely by circumstance, by accident even. My recently published autobiography The Adventures of a Happy Homosexual is subtitled Memoirs of […] Read more