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The article's quote that explain the title cliffhanger is: > Instead, we ask those who sincerely believe that it does make sense to organize our discipline ent
by luso_brazilian 10y ago
The article's quote that explain the title cliffhanger is:
> Instead, we ask those who sincerely believe that it does make sense to organize our discipline entirely around European and American figures and texts to pursue this agenda with honesty and openness.
> We therefore suggest that any department that regularly offers courses only on Western philosophy should rename itself “Department of European and American Philosophy.”
In my view, up until this point, a very rational proposal, in line with the change from "Computer Science" to (for instance) "Information Technology" in courses that skip the whole mathematical foundation to focus exclusively on the applied technological disciplines.
However, the follow up of the reasoning sounded too judgmental with an unnecessary passive aggressive tone:
> This simple change would make the domain and mission of these departments clear, and would signal their true intellectual commitments to students and colleagues.