Hello and I'm welcome to this interview of the Lottucetus.

I'm your host Stelios and I have the honor and pleasure to be joined by Professor Stephen Hicks.

Professor Hicks, welcome.

Thanks for the invitation.

Happy to be here.

I'm very happy to be talking to you.

And I think we have plenty of topics to talk about.

Oh yeah, for sure, yes.

Huge amount going on in philosophy and it spillovers into the cultural sphere so we will fill up

the time.

Exactly.

So first question I would like to ask you is what interested you in philosophy from the beginning?

What made you want to become an academic?

Well in that sense I think I was a late bloomer.

When I was in my teen years and into my early 20s,

I planned on being an architect and civil engineer.

So most of my thinking was in that direction.

Although from an early age I always was a reader and I loved fiction and history and

ideas of various sorts, I had no idea what philosophy was as a discipline until I went to university and there I was just taking a variety of courses to understand the landscape and to learn a bunch of stuff before.

I plan to have a more technical, an artistic career as an architect in engineering.

But in my first year of university, I was reading and taking courses and what often happens in the first year of university is the whole world opens up to one and that was the year that philosophy as a as a discipline came together in my mind.

I understood what it was and I was fascinated and I ended up taking a large number of courses in

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