Abstract

Doing philosophy via e-mail is a new sort of enterprise, one that is still struggling with a number of uncertainties. Neither the way the participants are assembled, nor the procedural schedule of the new experiments is easily determined by established means. Following academic custom a reasonably well-defined group of people will take part in discussions over a certain limited stretch of time. That this can be done is shown by several contributions to this volume. Still, this particular environment is apt to subvert several rules that are taken for granted in conventional philosophical discourse.