I stumbled upon an interview
with Daniel Dennett*
on google video. I didn't care much for the interviewer, Robert Wright,
because he kept trying force his own viewpoint on Dennett (he seems to
have a fundamentalist/dogmatic understanding of religion and philosophy),
rather than ask smart questions. Nonetheless, the interview was
enlightening, and should prove interesting to other people attracted to
philosophical ruminations.
It turns out that Robert Wright has been
going around for the last five years talking to philosophical thinkers of all ilks - philosophers, biologists, psychologists, physicists, religious leads and so forth.
and the videotaped interviews are available on the website MeaningOfLife.tv.
The interviews are organized by interviewee\topic (column on the left) or
by topic\interviewee (column on the right), which is convenient, since the
whole interviews run for 45 minutes, on average. I haven't watched all the
interviews yet, but I'm sure we can assume that they are equally
enlightening.
Unfortunately, the website doesn't work well in
Firefox, but you could use IETab
or watch the series on GoogleVideo
(without the benefit of topically organized clips). If you like any
specific segment, you could probably download it using VideoDownloader.
Keep in mind though, that all the material is copyrighted. (For more
interesting Firefox extensions and tips, see here)
*A
more interesting interview
with Daniel Dennett by Bill Moyers, about Dennett's book - Breaking
the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- Chinmay