Simon Glendinning on Philosophy's Two Cultures

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 27 May 2013

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Most philosophers today self-identify as within an Analytic or a Continental tradition. Where did these two cultures of philosophy come from? What role does Continental Philosophy play for Analytic Philosophy? Simon Glendinning investigates these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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0:00.0	This is made in philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warburton.
0:06.0	Philosophy bites is available at www
0:09.0	philosophy bites.com.
0:11.0	Philosophy bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy.
0:15.0	Across the world, says Simon Glendinning, philosophy is dominated by the model of two models.
0:20.0	There are two ways of doing things. There is analytic philosophy and then there's continental philosophy.
0:26.0	How did this divide come about? And is it here to stay?
0:30.0	Simon Glen Dinning, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
0:33.0	Great to be here, Nidell, thank you.
0:35.0	The topic we're going to talk about is philosophy's two cultures.
0:40.0	What are philosophy's two cultures?
0:42.0	Well, there shouldn't really only be two, but as a matter of fact, over the whole of the world today,
0:48.0	philosophy as it's understood and taught and written is a culture of two cultures and the names
0:56.6	we've given them or give them are the so-called analytic tradition of philosophy
1:00.9	and the so-called continental tradition.
1:04.0	Could you just gloss those a bit?
1:06.0	I mean obviously we think we know what they mean, but what do you think they mean?
1:09.0	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 as far back as the 1990s.
1:20.0	I was trying to get my head around the idea of what continental philosophy is and I
1:24.9	thought I'd be able to work up some remarkable sort of characterization which
1:29.8	would hold together what seemed to me quite a motley crew of different kinds of writings and authors.
1:37.2	And in the course of that investigation I basically gave up.
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