UPDATE: I'm moving this to the front, since this was originally posted on a Saturday morning. Comments so far have been extremely helpful; more welcome.
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Peter Momtchiloff, the philosophy editor at OUP, has asked me to prepare a short essay (1,000 words) for the second edition of The Oxford Companion to Philosophy on "American Philosophy Today" which "looks at what the intellectual trends and changes have been over the last couple of decades--what have been the areas of particular activity, how philosophy is different now from what it was in previous decades, what the great centres of philosophical research have been and how they differ in character from each other, who some of the leading figures have been." (Note that many of the leading figures will have separate entries, so it won't be necessary to go in to great detail on them.)
I would be grateful for advice from philosophers on what they would like/expect to see in such an entry. I've activated comments; no anonymous postings. Thanks.
