Q&A: WHO INFLUENCED YOU? Who influenced you? Um. Have you seen my reading list?

Q&A: WHO INFLUENCED YOU?

Who influenced you? Um. Have you seen my reading list? Science influenced me. If I have to name a few philosophers it would be Hayek and Popper because they are the thinkers who attempted to restate social science as the study of information – and only partly succeeded.

Otherwise I am influenced intellectually by science and scientists. Sentimentally by ‘hard’ Science Fiction, which I consider the reformation of mythology for use in modernity. Educationally by my study of fine art probably frames my reference more than any other. Recreationally by my study of history. Environmentally by germanic intellectual and cultural influences dominant in the early twentieth century. Genetically as an anglo conservative son of puritans, and catholic mother’s conservative idealism.