Philosophy Interview: Telling Time –
Adrian Piper Interview by Lynn
Tjernan Lukkas (2007; 1:35:20. Unedited interview from Lukkas’
film essay, Telling Time; used by permission [for further
information about Telling Time, please visit www.lynnlukkas.com])
Topics covered include the problems time presents for metaphysics
and ethics; Kant’s analysis of time; the validity of the Critique
of Pure Reason for contemporary science; criteria of adequacy for a
theory of time in cognitive psychology and the natural sciences;
the experience of time in meditation, art and yoga; creativity and
time-disturbance; how time make science an ethical enterprise; the
ontology of present, past and future time; the significance of
time-based art media; alternative states of consciousness and the
role of reason; the resources of Vedic philosophy for the West.
With German subtitles.