Open AccessDiversifying Academic Philosophy
Author(s) -
Vytis Silius
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
asian studies/asian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.23
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2350-4226
pISSN - 2232-5131
DOI - 10.4312/as.2020.8.2.257-280
Subject(s) - philosophy education , western philosophy , parochialism , philosophy of sport , philosophy of computer science , epistemology , philosophy of medicine , community of inquiry , modern philosophy , curriculum , social philosophy , field (mathematics) , sociology , philosophy , social science , political science , pedagogy , law , psychology , medicine , social relation , alternative medicine , cognition , mathematics , pathology , neuroscience , politics , pure mathematics
The article asks why, in Western universities, the success of the academic field of comparative philosophy has so far failed to significantly diversify the curricula of academic philosophy. It suggests that comparative philosophy has mainly relied on the same approaches that have made academic philosophy Eurocentric, namely, on the history of philosophy as the main mode of teaching and researching philosophy. Further, post-comparative philosophy and transcultural studies are presented as providing tools to address the foundations of the institutional parochialism of academic philosophy, while preserving one of the most fundamental tenets of philosophy—the quest for universal knowledge that transcends cultural particularities.