  He recalls that most of his cousins on his mother’s side were Americans; and two of his children emigrated to America and married Americans. Like all distinguished Oxford philosophers, he received many invitations there (of which the most welcome was to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, where he wrote both Moral Thinking, 1981, and his little book Plato, 1982). All this made less improbable his early retirement from Oxford in 1983, and his appointment as Graduate Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida at Gainesville. One desire was to escape from faculty politics at Oxford. A contributing factor was the publication of Moral Thinking, which left him immediately, he confessed, nothing new to say in his staple lectures.  Yet his main motive was the prospect of helping to set up a Center for Applied Philosophy.