Stuart Donald Blair Picken (1942 – 5 August 2016)[1] was a Scottish philosopher, academic and cleric.
In 2007 he was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure (gold rays with neck ribbon) by the government of Japan in recognition of his work.
At the age of sixteen he entered the University of Glasgow where he studied divinity and philosophy, and completed a doctorate on Christianity and the work of Kant.
[1] After visiting Japan on a Rotary Scholarship, in 1972 Picken was appointed Professor of Philosophy at International Christian University in Tokyo, where he remained until 1997.
After retiring from academia, he came back to Scotland and re-entered the ministry as minister of Blackford in 2005[1][3][4] He was married to Hongwen and had two children, a son and a daughter.