Professor Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton is a research professor at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Washington. His research interests centre on aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture; and he engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. Until 1990 he was professor of aesthetics at Birkbeck College, London, and went on to professorships in philosophy at Boston University, Massachusetts and the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Arlington, Virginia.
Roger has published over thirty books, including works of philosophy, literature and fiction, while his writings have been translated into most major languages. His most recent books are Death-Devoted Heart, Gentle Regrets and Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged.