Steve Pyke for a quarter century makes portraits of philosophers and gives them the same question: Derek Parfait "What interests me is the metaphysical questions, the answers to which affect our emotions. Why is there a universe? That allows each of us consider ourselves to the same person throughout life? Do we have free will? Illusory if over time? " Alfred Ayer "To say that authority - whether secular or religious - can in no way justify the morality is not to deny the obvious fact that he somehow determines our choice." John McDowell "I am interested in the effects of the metaphysical position, which we so easily slips, it can be called scientism or naturalism. I am sure that it distorts our ideas about the place of consciousness in the world. The task of philosophy, as I see it - to correct this distortion.. Noam Chomsky "The main questions of philosophy can, I think, productively reformulated overridden from the standpoint of ...