ABSTRACT
Richard Dawkins is an evolutionary biologist whose work— as will be seen in the interview—raises fascinating philosophical questions. He was educated at Oxford University, where he studied for his doctorate with the Nobel Prizewinning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. After a short spell as Assistant Professor of Zoology at the University of California at Berkeley he returned to Oxford in 1970 where he is now a reader in zoology and a Fellow of New College. His three books, The Selfish Gene (1976, 2nd edition, 1989), The Extended Phenotype (1982) and The Blind Watchmaker (1986) have had a great influence on many areas of contemporary thought.
