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Interview

Going Global

Robert Neville, Dean of the School of Theology at Boston University, was co-organiser of the World Congress. Anja Steinbauer interviewed him about his hopes, fears and crazy dreams for philosophy.

AS Prof. Neville, the title of this World Congress has been ‘Paideia’ – ‘Education’. To what degree do you think justice has been done to the theme of the conference, can philosophy educate humanity?

RN I think that one of the remarkable things is that the illustrious response has been from many traditions of philosophy. The word for paideia in Chinese is daxue, which is the term for ‘university’ or ‘grownup learning’. There are 26 delegates here from the People’s Republic and many more from Taiwan and Singapore, the Chinese Diaspora, including a large number from the United States, Chinese Americans.

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