Abstract

Despite the fact that today the world of academic philosophy seems to have very precise rules and instruments for measuring the true success of authors, books, journals and so on, an impartial observer would get a feeling of deeply dysfunctional community. I go as far as asserting that our field is showing clear signs of autism. With communication at extremely low levels and a high degree of isolation in small communities, people involved in academic philosophy are obsessively required to produce progress in their field, as it happens in applied science. It seems rather clear that if things continue this way the final result cannot be other than the total rejection of what drove philosophy onward for more than two thousand years