Troy Camplin

• Age: 37
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Cancer
• Zodiac Year: Boar
• Industry: Consulting
• Occupation: Interdisciplinarian
• Location: Dallas : Texas : United States

About Me

I have a Ph.D. in the Humanities from UT-Dallas, a M.A. in English from the Univ. of S. MS, and a B.S. in Recombinant Gene Technology. I am a fiction writer, a poet, and a philosopher -- in any order on any given day.

You've been invited to a fancy ball but the only thing you have to wear is an orange wooly jumper. What shoes do you wear?

Fuzzy orange shoes, to match

Interests

• libertarianism
• philosophy
• science
• economics
• fiction
• poems
• art
• music
• writing
• information theory
• game theory
• chaos theory
• systems theory
• evolution
• Nietzsche
• La Rouchefoucauld
• religion
• education
• scholarship
• politics
• liberal
• conservative
• Democrat
• Republican
• Libertarian
• interdisciplinary
• free markets
• capitalism
• government
• biology

Favorite Movies

• Adaptation
• Casablanca
• Pulp Fiction
• Kill Bill
• La Jetee
• 12 Monkeys
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Thank You For Smoking

Favorite Music

• The Beatles
• The Doors
• Franz Ferdinand
• Modest Mouse
• Stone Temple Pilots
• Nirvana
• Pearl Jam
• Johnny Cash
• Flaming Lips
• The Stooges
• The White Stripes
• The Vines
• The Hives
• Luscious Jackson
• Weezer
• Artic Monkeys
• Velvet Underground

Favorite Books

• Milan Kundera
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
• Andre Gide
• The Immoralist
• Lafcadio's Advenstures
• Goethe
• The Sorrows of Young Werther
• William Faulkner
• Thomas Hardy
• Jude the Obscure
• Nietzsche
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Spinoza
• Epicurus
• Epictetus
• Frederick Turner
• The Culture of Hope
• J.T. Fraser
• Time Conflict and Human Values
• Anais Nin
• Henry Miller
• Tropic of Cancer
• Albert Camus
• Don Beck
• Spiral Dynamics
• Lou Marinoff
• Steven Pinker

My Blogs	Team Members
Comments on La Rochefoucauld
The Metaphor Group	Robert McDowell Mary Grabar Frederick Turner
Interdisciplinar... World
Troy Loves Anna	Anna
Evolutionary Aesthetics