June 20, 2008

Two Philosophers Still Remembered

To the Editor:

Alan Wolfe's "The Forgotten Philosopher" (The Chronicle Review, May 9) begins with a false assumption: that there are only two trends in philosophical approaches, the Continental and the Anglo-American analytic. Wolfe erroneously concludes that both have excluded the philosopher John Stuart Mill.

It might seem that Mill has been "left out in the cold," but this is the result of looking through the lens of oversimplified and outdated categorizations of philosophy.