New Philosophy

Introduction
This new philosophy is primarily a method for doing philosophy. It is intended to structure interactions between philosophers as well as the production of philosophy itself. We might want to explain that it is a meta-method: a method for developing any kind of philosophy or specific philosophical method.

This new philosophy is structured into three levels, reminiscent of a political state.

Level 1 is the level of the individual. This is usualy a blog (or any other type of public means of communicating your actions and ideas) kept by the individual and commented upon by others.

Level 2 is the level of specific communities. It is usually a wiki and its attendant discussion forums (or any other means of composing a 'text' as a group). Here people with similar interests (in a specific type of philosophy, or current, say epistemology or virtue ethics) tegether compose a philosophical expose of their ideas. It is usually the members of the level 2 community that comment upon blogs at level 1.

Level 3 is the last, meta level. It is also a wiki. Here the very structure of the new philosophy is discussed, modified and extended. This wiki is a Level 3 wiki. All members of any level 2 community might participate in doing philosophy at the level 3.

The new philosophy has a few general goals and distinctive features: 1. the method consists primarily in a critical stance towards itself. The method is to improve the method, which means that no part of this or any wiki is untoucheable (even this sentence might be suspended with respect to specific areas over specific periods of time).