Hello Derek Allan. Thanks for the post and I am interested in the continental/analytic divide myself. However, i suspect most of this divide is less philosophical in nature and more cultural at the surface - we inherit the split in academic philosophy that dates from the 19th century (gottlob frege and edmund husserl) - but it may also come down to the differences between the natural and human sciences. Philosophy has for the most part of the past 300 years been formally an analysis of nature, but with the rise of the human sciences philosophy has split into two irreconcilable camps. Since the human sciences, i.e., psychology, anthropology, sociology, are barely a century old themselves, the analytics have had a head start (logic, mathematics, physical sciences, what have you) but I feel the more interesting and radical ideas are found within the so-called "soft" sciences. I myself have ideas that may reverse the traditional allegiance of philosophy to the "harder" sciences.