Thinking about Thinking What Kind of Conversation is Philosophy?

This essay in metaphilosophy aims at showing that philosophy is indeed a conversation by clarifying many, if not all, features that determine the philosophical practice as provocative, responsive, dialogical, communitarian, educational, and transformative. Since philosophical thought is also rooted in a dimension of faith, this basic relation is made explicit and concretized through analyses of a particular form of interaction between faith and philosophy.