Often times it seems that philosophy should be more of apublic event, rather than the chatter of academics in stuffy old rooms. What, however, is the pay-off for the average joe—or what W.V.O. Quine calls “the man in the street?” Enlightenment? An understanding of dead Greece, Rome, Germany? A sense of what sort of life they should live? Popularization of philosophy looks to be a difficult task indeed, considering the nature of the practice.