Anthony John Gottlieb (born 1956) is a British writer, author, historian of ideas, and former Executive Editor of The Economist.
[1] A Two-Year Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford from October 2017, Gottlieb has previously held visiting fellowships at All Souls and Harvard University, and has been a visiting scholar at New York University and fellow at the Cullman Center[2] for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
He is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities[3] and the series editor of The Routledge Guides to the Great Books.
He has published many articles and book reviews in The New York Times[8] since 1990 on subjects ranging from philosophy and history to the role of talking parrots in literature and the significance of sex with robots, and in The New Yorker on the Wittgenstein family, René Descartes, works on atheism, the theory of voting, and evolutionary psychology.
He is currently working on a third volume in his history of western philosophy that will cover Kant and the schools that followed him up to the present day.