Intercultural Polylogues in Philosophy

Statement to Panel "Intercultural Dialogue", 29th Wittgenstein-Conference of the ALWS
Kirchberg am Wechsel, August 11th 2006. Other statements, in the order of contribution, have
been given by: Mohammed Shomali (Qom, Iran), Patrick Riordan SJ (London, UK), and
Eveline Goodman-Thau (Jerusalem, Israel)

Since this is a conference of philosophers about philosophy and matters relevant to
philosophy, I shall not talk about intercultural dialogues in general, nor will I speak about
dialogues in the fields of religion or culture (fields which have to be distinguished, by the
way), dialogues between politicians, etc. My statement will try to concentrate on
intercultural dialogues in philosophy. This means, according to my understanding of
"philosophy", that I have in mind essentially dialogues on ontological, on epistemological,
or on normative questions.