Roger Scruton
Keynote title: "Effing the Ineffable."
Roger graduated from Cambridge University in 1965, spent two years abroad and then pursued an academic career in philosophy, first in Cambridge, and then in London, until 1990, when he took a year's leave of absence to work for an educational charity in Czechoslovakia. (This charity grew from the 'underground university' which Roger and his colleagues had established in the last decade of communism.) Roger then taught part-time at Boston University Massachusetts until the end of 1994, while building up a public affairs consultancy in Eastern Europe.
Since then he has been a free-lance writer and consultant, taking on short-term contracts when necessary. He currently holds three positions: visiting professor (unpaid) at Oxford University, where he is also a Fellow at Blackfriars Hall; visiting professor (part-time) in the Philosophy Department at St Andrews; and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC, where he is currently pursuing a project on the cultural impact of neuroscience.
Roger has made a significant contribution to the area of music aesthetics. Titles include: The Aesthetics of Music (1999) and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation (2009).
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