For most of the twentieth and now also the twenty-first century, the world of academic philosophy has been plagued by the so-called "analytic-continental divide." In recent years, numerous attempts have been made to understand and bridge the `divide' because leading philosophers have realized that the sharp division between the two styles or traditions of philosophy has produced some harmful results for the discipline as a whole. This study is an attempt to read the divide through the lens of the Medieval controversy between Aquinas' doctrine of analogy and Scotus' doctrine of univocity.
