The International Academy Of Humanism
The International Academy of Humanism was established to
recognize distinguished
humanists and to disseminate humanistic ideals and beliefs. The members
of the academy,
listed below, (1) are devoted to free inquiry in all fields of human
endeavor, (2) are
committed to a scientific outlook and the use of the scientific method
in acquiring
knowledge, and (3) uphold humanist ethical values and principles.
The academy's goals include furthering respect for human
rights, freedom, and the
dignity of the individual; tolerance of various viewpoints and
willingness to compromise;
commitment to social justice; a universalistic perspective that
transcends national,
ethnic, religious, sexual, and racial barriers; and belief in a free
and open pluralistic
and democratic society.
Humanist Laureates
- Pieter Admiraal (MD—Netherlands)
- Shulamit Aloni (Minister of Education—Israel)
- Ruben Ardila (Univ. de Colombia—Colombia)
- Margaret Atwood (author—Canada)
- Kurt Baier (Univ. of Pittsburgh—USA)
- Etienne Baulieu (French Inst. of Health & Medical Rsch—France)
- Baruj Benacerraf (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—USA)
- Elena Bonner (human rights advocate—Russia)
- Jacques Bouveresse (Collège de France—France)
- Paul D. Boyer (Univ. of California, Los Angeles—USA)
- Mario Bunge (McGill Univ.—Canada)
- Jean-Pierre Changeux (Collège de France—France)
- Patricia Smith Churchland (Univ. of California, San Diego—USA)
- Arthur C. Clarke (author—Sri Lanka)
- Richard Dawkins (Oxford Univ.—UK)
- José M. R. Delgado (Univ. of Madrid—Spain)
- Daniel C. Dennett (Tufts University—USA)
- Jean Dommanget (Royal Observatory—Belgium)
- Ann Druyan (author, lecturer, producer—USA)
- Umberto Eco (Univ. of Bologna—Italy)
- Luc Ferry (Sorbonne—France)
- Antony Flew (Reading Univ.—UK)
- Yves Galifret (Union Rationaliste—France)
- Johan Galtung, (Univ. of Oslo—Norway)
- Murray Gell-Mann (Nobel Laureate, Sante Fe Inst.—USA)
- Vitaly Ginzburg (Moscow State University—Russia)
- Rebecca Goldstein (author, professor, Trinity College—USA)
- Adolf Grünbaum (Univ. of Pittsburgh—USA)
- Jürgen Habermas (Univ. of Frankfurt—Germany)
- Herbert Hauptman (Nobel Laureate, State Univ. of New York—USA)
- Margherita Hack (astronomer, astrophysicist—Italy)
- Alberto Hidalgo Tuñón (Univ. de Oviedo—Spain)
- Christopher Hitchens (author, lecturer—USA)
- Donald Johanson (Inst. of Human Origins—USA)
- Sergei Kapitza (Moscow Inst. of Physics and Technology—Russia)
- George Klein (Karolinska Inst.—Sweden)
- György Konrád (author—Hungary)
- Sir Harold W. Kroto (University of Sussex—UK)
- Ioanna Kuçuradi (FISP—Turkey)
- Thelma Lavine (George Mason Univ.—USA)
- Richard Leakey (activist and conservationist—Kenya)
- Jean-Marie Lehn (Université Louis Pasteur—France)
- Elizabeth Loftus (professor, Univ. of California/Irvine—USA)
- José Leite Lopes (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Fisicas—Brazil)
- Adam Michnik (author—Poland)
- Jonathan Miller (OBE, MD, author—UK)
- Taslima Nasrin (MD, author—Bangladesh)
- Elaine Pagels (professor, Princeton Univ.—USA)
- Steven Pinker (Harvard Univ.—USA)
- Dennis Razis (MD—Greece)
- Marcel Roche (Inst. de Investigaciones Científicas—Venezuela)
- Salman Rushdie (author, MIT—USA)
- Fernando Savater (philosophy educator—Spain)
- Peter Singer (Princeton Univ.—USA)
- Jens Chr. Skou (Univ. of Aarhus—Denmark)
- J. J. C. Smart (Australian National Univ.—Australia)
- Wole Soyinka (Nobel Laureate, author—Nigeria)
- Barbara Stanosz (Inst. “Ksia˛z·ka i Prasa”—Poland)
- Jack Steinberger (physicist—Switzerland)
- Svetozar Stojanovi´c (Univ. of Belgrade—Yugoslavia)
- Thomas S. Szasz (State Univ. of New York—USA)
- Sir Keith Thomas (Oxford Univ.—UK)
- Rob Tielman (Univ. of Utrecht—Netherlands)
- Lionel Tiger (Rutgers Univ.—USA)
- Neil deGrasse Tyson (scientist, Hayden Planetarium—USA)
- Mario Vargas Llosa (author—Perú)
- Simone Veil (former president, European Parliament—France)
- Gore Vidal (author—USA)
- Mourad Wahba (Univ. of Ain Shams—Egypt)
- James D. Watson (author, biologist—USA)
- Steven Weinberg (Univ. of Texas, Austin—USA
- Harvey Weinstein (co-founder of Miramax—USA)
- G. A. Wells (Univ. of London—UK)
- Edward O. Wilson (Harvard Univ.—USA)
Deceased
- George O. Abell
- Steve Allen
- Isaac Asimov
- Sir Alfred J. Ayer
- R. Nita Barrow
- Sir Isaiah Berlin
- Brand Blanshard
- Sir Hermann Bondi
- Bonnie Bullough
- Bernard Crick
- Francis Crick
- Milovan Djilas
- Paul Edwards
- Sir Raymond Firth
- Joseph F. Fletcher III
- Betty Friedan
- Stephen Jay Gould
- Sidney Hook
- Lawrence Kohlberg
- Franco Lombardi
- Jolé Lombardi
- André Michael Lwoff
- Paul B. MacCready, Jr.
- Ernest Nagel
- Conor Cruise O’Brien
- George Olincy
- Indumati Parikh
- John Passmore
- Octavio Paz
- Chaim Perelman
- Sir Karl Popper
- W. V. Quine
- Max Rood
- Richard Rorty
- Carl Sagan
- Andrei Sakharov
- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- V. M. Tarkunde
- Richard Taylor
- Sir Peter Ustinov
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Lady Barbara Wooton
Secretariat
- Paul Kurtz (professor emeritus of philosophy, SUNY at Buffalo, editor in chief of Free Inquiry) President
- Valerií A. Kuvakin (Moscow State Univ.—Russia)
- Gerald A. Larue (Univ. of Southern California—USA)
- Jean-Claude Pecker (Collège de France—France)
