Christopher Peacocke on David Wiggins

david wiggins

“Intellectual empathy can transform philosophical conversation and teaching. If you understand from the other’s point of view their doubts, concerns, their philosophical hinterland, you will be able to communicate ideas in ways not otherwise available”. — David Wiggins: A Personal Philosophical Memoir (open access).

Troy Earl Camplin

Troy Camplin

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.

The remarkable ‘love story’ between great thinkers Adam Smith and David Hume is told in a new play

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As reported in The Scotsman. Tickets.