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Editorial

On Dialogue

by Rick Lewis

Apologies if this editorial is a little less polished than usual. The one literate member of the Philosophy Now editorial team has skived off to Greece to lie on a beach.

Anyone who takes up philosophy is soon told that there is a mighty split between the way philosophy is done here in dear old Blighty (and in America and Australia) and the way it is done over there on the Continent. At first it may look like the world’s philosophers are indulging in some arcane kind of tribal warfare, but on closer inspection it is apparent that most of the time the two groups are just politely ignoring each other. For nearly a century there have been two separate strands of development in Western philosophy, without all that much communication between them.

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