Dear colleagues,<br><br>On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:16 PM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mkapstei@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">mkapstei@uchicago.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>Some Indology subscribers may be interested in the<br>

following, from the electronic edition of the New York Times:<br>
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<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/philosophys-western-bias/?ref=global-home" target="_blank">http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/philosophys-western-bias/?ref=global-home</a><br><br><br>
As someone who will be teaching an intro course called &quot;Philosophy East and West&quot; this coming academic year, the article Justin Smith published in <a href="http://nytimes.com">nytimes.com</a> resonated with me. I&#39;m glad that Matthew Kapstein posted it to this list.<br>
<br>This may not be the most appropriate forum to ask, but given the wide reading of the members of this list, maybe some will have good suggestions to the following query. I&#39;m currently looking for are clear, accessible statements -- proof-texts if you like -- from Western philosophical literature of the claim that non-western philosophy (Indian, Chinese, Islamic, African, etc.) is not philosophy or is otherwise lesser in some respect. Most often, this is an implicit assumption or one easily follows. I&#39;m looking for a few choice quotes or short readings that will make an impact undergraduates with little to no prior exposure to the issue.<br>
<br>Thanks for any suggestions you might have.<br><br>Sincerely,<br><br>David Fiordalis<br>Linfield College<br>