ROGER SCRUTON is currently visiting professor in the School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, and visiting professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He is also a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington and a contributing editor to The New Atlantis. In 2010 he gave the Gifford Lectures in St Andrews under the title of ‘The Face of God’, which have been collected and published under the title The Face of God (Continuum, 2012). In 2011 he gave the Stanton Lectures in the Divinity School at the University of Cambridge. Prof. Scruton is a writer, philosopher and public commentator. He has specialised in aesthetics with particular attention to music and architecture. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a fellow of the British Academy. Among his other most recent books are Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England (Atlantic, 2012), Beauty: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2009); The Uses of Pessimism (Atlantic Books, 2010), and Green Philosophy (Atlantic, 2012; published in the United States as How to Think Seriously about the Planet).