All the important innovations in philosophy come when a philosopher takes pause to consider what philosophers have been doing and whether their doings are philosophically justifiable. But in doing this, the innovator must ask the most fundamental of questions: what is philosophy? And why is philosophy worth doing? The different answers to these questions themselves lead to new philosophies. In philosophy departments in the Anglo-American world there is still a consensus that philosophy can essentially be broken down into two types: analytic and continental. Each type tends to view the other with suspicion. Every academically employed philosopher has also entered the particular department or school they are in because a consensus exists about what philosophy should be doing, and those who share that consensus typically wish to replicate the practice that is their daily bread.