Questioning 'Western Philosophy' Conference
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Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach​

Appropriating, Borrowing and Retelling the Philosophical Story: Countering Conceptual Hegemony
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Chair of Diversifying Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
Professor of Philosophy, Konstanz ​University (DE)

Christoph Schuringa

Canonization and Its Discontents
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​Assistant Prof. in Philosophy, ​New College of the Humanities, London (UK)/Northeastern University

Linda Martín Alcoff

What comes after Eurocentrism?

​Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College/Graduate Center, CUNY (US)

Lucy Allais

Revisiting problematising western philosophy

Professor of Philosophy, ​Johns Hopkins University (US), Univ. of the Witwatersrand (ZA)

Lea Cantor

The Origin Story of ‘Western Philosophy’

​Doctoral Candidate, Philosophy, University of Oxford (UK)

​Lilith W. Lee

Philosophising under King and Qing: Two Straits Chinese Critiques of ‘Western’ Philosophy
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​Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)

​Lerato Posholi

Demarcating ‘Western philosophy’: beyond origins?
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SNSF Fellow, Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel (CH)

​Kadir Filiz

Must Phenomenology Remain European?

​PhD candidate, Philosophy, Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)

Lin Ma

Heidegger on “Abendland” (West) as a Being-Historical Notion

Professor of Philosophy, 
Renmin University, Beijing (CN)

Yoko Arisaka

Hermeneutics of Exclusion: Historiographies of the Histories of Philosophies​
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Research fellow, Institute for Philosophy, University of Hildesheim (DE)

​Catherine König-Pralong

Mapping (the History of) the Mind: Europe’s Self-Colonization
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​Professor of Philosophy, EHESS Paris (FR)

Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Translatio Studii and 'non-Western' Philosophy

Professor of Philosophy and French; Director, Institute of African Studies, ​Columbia University (US)

​Josh Platzky Miller

Shirking Knowledge: Forms of Ignorance and the idea of ‘Western Philosophy’
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Lecturer in Sociology, University of the Free State (ZA)

Saloni de Souza

On Top of the World: Garcia de Orta on the Problems With “Western Philosophy”

Associate Lecturer, Philosophy, UCL (UK)

​Allan M. Hillani

Savage Hobbes: Anthropological Philosophy Against Philosophical Anthropology
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PhD Candidate, Philosophy, The New School for Social Research (US)

​Kimberly Ann Harris

The Relationship between African American Philosophy and 'Western Philosophy'
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Assistant Prof. of Philosophy,
​University of Virginia (US)

​​Robert Bernasconi

The Role of Races and Religions in the Rewriting of the History of Philosophy

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy & African American Studies, ​Penn State Univ. (US)

Lewis Gordon

Before ‘the West’ and Beyond: Ancient African and Contemporary Africana Philosophy 

Professor and Philosophy Department Head, ​University of Connecticut (US)

Peter Adamson

Is Philosophy in the Islamic World “Western”?

Professor of Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, ​LMU, Munich (DE) and King's College London (UK)
Podcast Host of History of Philosophy (Without Any Gaps)

​Dmitri Levitin

The Strange Scholarly Origins of ‘Western Philosophy’, and an Uncomfortable Question

​All Souls College & Faculty of History, University of Oxford (UK)

Jonathan Egid

The category of 'Western Philosophy': reflections from connected history

Doctoral Student, King's College London (UK)

Sarah Bernard-Granger

Western philosophy, or the national construction of a universal philosophy

Doctoral Student, Philosophy, ​ENS de Lyon (FR)

​Daniel James Smith

A Kantian Conspiracy in the Historiography of Philosophy
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​Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Memphis (US)
Prior to the conference, we recommend reading:
  • Ben Kies (1953) The Contribution of the Non-European Peoples to World Civilisation (Open Access)
  • Lucy Allais (2016) Problematising Western philosophy as one part of Africanising the curriculum
  • Christoph Schuringa (2020) On the very idea of ‘Western’ philosophy (Open Access)
  • Lea Cantor (2022) Thales – the ‘first philosopher’? A troubled chapter in the historiography of philosophy (Open Access)
  • Josh Platzky Miller (forthcoming 2023) From the ‘History of Western Philosophy’ to Entangled Histories of Philosophy: The Contribution of Ben Kies
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