PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE IN NORWEIAN COUNTRIES

Abstract

In this article the author presents a global outlook of the situation of Philosophical Practice (considering it not only as Philosophical Counseling, but including also the work with groups, as APPA defends) in the Nordic Contries, specially in Norway, and of their main characters and influences. The philosophers are grouped in three generations: the first, the pioneers, is composed mainly by Anders Lindseth and was very influenced by the achenbachian view of Philosophical Counseling; the second generation, personified by Henning Herrestad and Helge Svare, and in which is produced a certain «analytical turn», influenced by the style of the Dutch philosophical practitioners, although still maintaining a «soft approach»; and the third generation, more eclectic, personified by Morten Fastvold, who proposes a more confrontational approach, influenced by Brenifier, and Øyvind Olsholt, who trascends the Lipman approach of doing philosophy with children.