Doug
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Retired Lecturer |
| Location | Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | American living in England, retired professor of computer science, child of the sixties ex-Marxist evolved into a conservative, although a secular and internationally-minded one who thinks that the rapidly changing nature of the world requires continued development of conservative ideas.Despiser of nationalism. Child of the Enlightenment, happy in modernity. Believer in the existence of an objective world. Puzzled by the mind-body problem, the problem of Free Will, quantum weirdness. Optimistic about the future. Voracious reader. |
| Interests | History, politics, science, philosophy. |
| Favorite Books | Macaulay's History of England Patrick O'Brien's novels Mary Renault's novels Thomas Sowell, James Q Wilson, the Thernstroms ... many others. |