Josh Platzky Miller

The final talk in this showcase is 'The illegitimacy of 'Western Philosophy' and the Contribution of Ben Kies' by Josh Platzky Miller. To dive deeper into our Anniversary showcase, head to our YouTube Channel for more recorded talks and visit our website for the complete Conference Reading List!🧡

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Eurocentrism & its critics in the History of Philosophy - Special Issue co-edited with @leamundi.bsky.social in the British Journal for the History of Philosophy (@thebshp.bsky.social). 3 new papers just published - more soon! #philsky #philosophy #historyofphilosophy #OA

We've got a brand new poster for our upcoming #DRLAnniversaryConference!

You can now find the full line-up on our website, as well as the registration form. The event will be hybrid, at the University of Manchester, and online!

‘Must Fall’ movements globally: transnational flows of South African student activism This article demonstrates an important case of transnational activist influence from the Global South to both Global North and other Global South contexts. While protests, slogans, strategies and d...

New Publication: Thinking about how the 2015-16 South African student movements ( #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall), travelled from 🇿🇦 elsewhere in the Global South and Global North (looking at Ghana🇬🇭, Malawi🇲🇼, Senegal🇸🇳, UK🇬🇧, US🇺🇸, Netherlands🇳🇱) doi.org/10.1080/0143... #SocialMovements #Transnational

Comparing the South African and Brazilian student uprisings (2015–2016): Similarities, Circulations, and Distance South Africa and Brazil are notorious for having some of the highest levels of (racialised) inequality on the planet, and dysfunctional education systems failing millions in their aspirations for a...

New Publication: Comparing 🇧🇷 and 🇿🇦 student movements, and thinking about where, how, when and why movements connect across the Global South - and why they don't doi.org/10.1080/2152... #SocialMovements #WorldSystems #StudentMovements

Josh Platzky Miller ‪University of the Free State, University of KwaZulu-Natal, University of Cambridge‬ - ‪‪Cited by 61‬‬ - ‪Social Movements‬ - ‪Knowledge Production‬ - ‪Education‬ - ‪History ...

It is likely that I will not use bsky much. If you're interested in what I have to say, why not take a look at things I put quite a bit of work into over here: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...