This study explores the application of the dialogue seminar methodwith in a doctoral programme KTH Advanced Programme in Refl ective Practiceof the research area of Skill and technology at the Royal Institute ofTechnology (KTH) in Stockholm. In order to understand distinctive features of the dialogue seminar method the study starts with a survey of how the method and its spirit were affected by the history of ideas related to the research area, of which many were generated within the intellectual milieu gathered around the Dialogue seminar of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and cultural journal Dialoger.The dialogue seminar method stands for an idea about what the link between skills, literature, philosophy, history of ideas, art and science is made up of. This idea is expressed in the way the dialogue is conducted; various topics are explored through associations, digressions and deviations form the subject. This indirect approach to reflection is called analogical thinking in contrast to the thinking based on deduction or induction. Analogical thinking prevails in judgement and action. It is also of great significance in e.g. development projects, in arts, all sorts of problem-solving, and those phases of research that call for inventiveness and imagination.The application of the dialogue seminar method within KTH Advanced Programme in Reflective Practice brings up new questions about the possibilitiesof pursuing scientific or methodological reflection by means of analogical thinking and about the status of classic humanistic readings within post graduate education.