Interviews with 2005-06 Guest Scholars

Streaming QuickTime videos (requiring both a high-speed Internet connection and the free QuickTime plug-in) are available below for for following pairs of distinguished guest New Visions scholars:

• Evelyn Fox Keller and Simon Levin
• Evan Thompson and Frans de Waal
• Nancey Murphy and Jeff Schloss (coming in fall 2005)

Evelyn Fox Keller & Simon Levin, January 2005
	Introduction (1:01)
	Key issues in nature, science, and religion (5:14)
	The role of teleology (4:26)
	Which of the five visions are useful? Problematic? (10:14)
	Thoughts on interdisciplinary colloboration (7:58)
	More thoughts on interdisciplinary collaboration (4:02)
	Is the metaphor of the elephant appropriate? (12:25)
	Agents and complex adaptive systems (4:47)
	The humanities and complex adaptive systems (10:20)
	Closing remarks (5:33)

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Evan Thompson & Frans DeWaal, February 2005
	Introduction (1:30)
	What is empathy? (4:25)
	Does empathy have multiple levels? (2:24)
	What is the status of scholarship on empathy? (12:11)
	Does empathy challenge notions of individualism? (12:02)
	Is empathy self-interested? (13:25)
	What do your research projects share in common? (5:18)

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