From The Philosopher's Playground to The Philosophers' Playground? Brief Reflections on Dialogue, Friendship, and Reason

Richard Rorty thinks the worst intellectual vice involves making moves, whether content-wise or methodologically, which end conversations.In reading the critical responses to The Philosopher's Playground, my critics not only avoid ending the conversation concerning the role of philosophical theory within the practice of scriptural reasoning (SR) but do so in ways that raise helpful and wise questions-thus increasing the quality of the conversations introduced or nurtured within my book.I feel like I have said most of what I have to say about these questions so my response to the critical responses will remain brief but with a greater hope that others will contribute to the conversations carried on by this journal.First, David O'Hara's insight in his essay-that the apostrophe seems to be misplaced in the title of my book-is exactly right and demonstrates my own Cartesian habits of thought and Emersonian transcendentalist tendencies.While I fully confess to my overly individualistic thinking, I

Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications