Philosophy & What Matters. Ep. 21: Continental Philosophy with Paul R. Patton (Wuhan)
Channel: Jeremiah Joven Joaquin
Date: 2020-11-23

"Philosophy & What Matters" deals with questions that matter to us from a philosophical point of view.

Contemporary Western philosophy is often divided into two main traditions. On the one hand, we have the Anglo-Analytic tradition, which is characterized as the more science-leaning way of doing philosophy. On the other hand, we have the Continental tradition, which emphasizes the more “human way” of doing philosophy. Compared to analytic philosophers, however, Continental philosophers are caricatured as obscure, unsystematic, and unrigorous in their way of philosophizing. But is this characterisation justified? Does the analytic/continental divide even make sense? 

To discuss what “Continental Philosophy” is and why it matters, we have Paul R. Patton, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Professor of Philosophy at Wuhan University and Flinders University.

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