Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures

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  Edmonds, and me, Nigel Warburton.

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  Says Simon Glendinning.

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  Philosophy is dominated by the model of two models.

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  There are two ways of doing things.

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  There is analytic philosophy, and then there is continental philosophy.

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  How did this divide come about, and is it here to stay?

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  Simon Glendinning, welcome to philosophy Bites.

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  Great to be here, Nigel.

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  Thank you.

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  The topic we're going to talk about is philosophy's two cultures.

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  What are philosophy's two cultures?

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  Well, there shouldn't really only be two, but as a matter of fact, over the whole of the world today, philosophy as it's understood and taught and written is a culture of two cultures.

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  And the names we've given them or give them are the so called analytic tradition of philosophy and the so called continental tradition.

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  Could you just gloss those a bit?

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  I mean, obviously we think we know what they mean, but what do you think they mean?

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  Well, for me, the identity of these two ways of going on with philosophy has been an enormous problem for me for a long time, far back as the 1990s, I was trying to get my head around the idea of what continental philosophy is, and I thought I'd be able to work up some remarkable sort of characterization which would hold together what seemed to me quite a motley crew of different kinds of writings and authors.

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  And in the course of that investigation, I basically gave up.

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