Venue: TPM A1.370/Teams

The issue of exclusion of non-western philosophies in the philosophical field

Structural Eurocentrism and Exclusion in Philosophy:

In this article, I argue that the question of the inclusion or exclusion of nonwestern thought in philosophy cannot be resolved by appealing to definitions of philosophy, as such definitions are an integral part of the epistemically hegemonic practices responsible for the exclusion of nonwestern thought in the first place. Metaphilosophy is ill-equipped to describe what philosophy is as it is primarily performative: it is engaged in a form of boundary work that takes part in hegemonic practices. The article further suggests that philosophy as a whole is inescapably involved in boundary work, and that some of its boundary work practices partake in structural eurocentrism.
To challenge structural eurocentrism in philosophy, (meta)philosophers would benefit from drawing resources from sociology of philosophy to further their knowledge of the mechanisms of exclusion—institutional and discursive—that are responsible for drawing the boundaries of the philosophical field. I argue for such a sociometaphilosophical approach by putting it in practice: by showing how mechanisms of exclusion, some of which illegitimate, are inscribed in the rules that codify philosophical practice, and as such are at the very core of what philosophy is in the hegemonic centers of knowledge production.

Venue: C1.060/hybrid

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Venue: A1.370/ hybrid

Juan Pablo Bermudez Rey will discuss how to use online surveys such as Qualtrics and prolific academic to do qualitative work in philosophy