Bill Cooke
Bill Cooke is a historian of atheism and humanism and Senior Editor of Free Inquiry. Based in Warrington, UK, he teaches philosophy and religious studies and holds a PhD in religious studies. His work examines how to live an authentic humanist life with minimal anthropocentrism, tracing the intellectual evolution of freethought from the Enlightenment to today. Having lived and worked in Kenya, New Zealand, the United States, and Britain, his global outlook informs his writing on secular ethics and rational inquiry. His books include A Wealth of Insights: Humanist Thought Since the Enlightenment and the Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism & Humanism. His most recent book is H G Wells and the Twenty-first Century (Liverpool University Press, 2023).