Encounters and Dialogues: Styles and Levels of Communication in Philosophical Practice

Encounters and Dialogues: Styles and Levels of Communication in Philosophical Practice

The world of philosophical practice is a patchwork of partly vague, partly not reducible styles and methods. We badly lack a common language regarding the quality of philosophical practice. The author contributes to the professional discussion of philosophical practice by being explicit about his approach. He characterizes his phenomenologically inspired way of philosophical practice as ‘dialogical encounter’. He describes some examples from his coaching practice. In the last part of the essay, he makes a distinction between encountering and procedural practices by describing two events.

The world of philosophical practice is a patchwork of partly vague, partly not reducible styles and methods. We badly lack a common language regarding the quality of philosophical practice. The author contributes to the professional discussion of philosophical practice by being explicit about his approach. He characterizes his phenomenologically inspired way of philosophical practice as ‘dialogical encounter’. He describes some examples from his coaching practice. In the last part of the essay, he makes a distinction between encountering and procedural practices by describing two events.