Terribly sad news. Troy had a deeply interesting quality of mind, was very much a renaissance man, and was an all-round super person — a gentle and kindly soul. I had the privilege of working with him several times and hanging out with him (second photo with Fred Turner). Troy was a regular contributor to Cosmos + Taxis, a master of the reviewer’s art (The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution, Darwinism As Religion: What Literature Tells Us About Evolution, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge and my wife’s Napoleon in America); an interesting article/chapter writer (Getting to the Hayekian Network and Shaping and Being Shaped: Jazz as a Way to Understand Human/Environment Interaction). Whenever we met Troy and I talked a lot about food (first photos below after a massive steak in Fort Worth; third a C+T conference in Rochester). More substantively, he and I talked about adapting a certain book for the stage. Here is his obituary.
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