Josh Platzky Miller
joshplatzkymiller.bsky.social
Josh Platzky Miller
@joshplatzkymiller.bsky.social
Questioning 'Western Philosophy' • Politics of Knowledge • Social Movements • African & Latin American Political Thought
Teaching @University of the Witwatersrand (Wits, 🇿🇦), previously @UFS, @UKZN and @Cambridge. Views own-ish, anattā-dependent.
Finally, Jonardon Ganeri offers a pathway beyond Eurocentrism, presenting a blueprint for cosmopolitan philosophy. Ganeri argues for a way of understanding the future of the history of philosophy through valuable philosophical skills and institutions doi.org/10.1080/0960...
Blueprint for cosmopolitan philosophy: a post-Eurocentric proposal
I defend a cosmopolitan conception of philosophy. I construct a typology of cosmopolitan philosophical skill around a division into seven categories: assimilative, autonomous, comparative, diaspori...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Second, Lee Wilson discusses Straits Chinese philosopher Lim Boon Keng (1869–1957), whose medical Confucianism diagnoses 'pathogens' causing a philosophical Eurocentrism. Lim presents an early systematic attempt to create an Anglo-Chinese hybrid philosophy doi.org/10.1080/0960...
Eurocentrism as disease: a pathology between King and Qing
Reviving Confucianism with evolutionary and medical conceptual tools in the British Straits Settlements before the Pacific War, the Straits Chinese philosopher, physician, reformer, and revolutiona...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
First up: Saloni de Souza highlights an important contribution from Garcia de Orta, a 16th century thinker who fled Portugal for Goa, India, and who critiqued various aspects of a kind of Eurocentrism widespread amongst European natural philosophers at the time doi.org/10.1080/0960...
Mixing up the medicine: Garcia de Orta on the problems with Eurocentric philosophy
Garcia de Orta (1501–1568) is largely remembered in academic circles as a minor figure in the history of medicine. The son of converts from Judaism to Catholicism, he fled escalating persecution in...
doi.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM