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Most philosophers in the Anglo-American world would probably describe themselves as working in the analytic tradition.

Some are scornful of what's often labeled continental philosophy.

That there's a fundamental distinction between analytic and continental philosophy is widely

presumed by philosophers and non-philosophors alike.

Burton Russell is seen as a paradigm example of an analytic philosopher,

Heidegger, a paradigm of a continental philosopher.

But Brian Lighter of the University of Chicago of a

continental philosopher. But Brian Lighter of the University of Chicago argues that the so-called

analytic continental division in philosophy is both artificial and

unhelpful. Brian Lighter, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thanks very much, good to be back.

The topic we're going to focus on this time

is the analytic continental distinction.

I know you're skeptical about there being such a distinction,

but could you just sketch out some of the caricatures

there are of these two schools of philosophy?

The standard story goes something like this. these two schools of philosophy?

The standard story goes something like this.

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