Before UCI, what I expected a BA in Philosophy to cover a lot of Plato, Aristotle, Hume and Kant. Someone even warned me that any department that doesn’t cover one of them was giving out dubious qualifications.
But what other divides are there?
Should continental be taught alongside analytic philosophy to show that divide? Should courses follow the history of ideas and sociology between thinkers who influenced or argued with one other? Or should put questions and issues to the forefront, and use philosophy as a source of proposed ways of resolving the conundra?
Should Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics and Logic be the four-corners, instead?
Why are perspectives from Eastern Philosophy and Asian religions still relatively new-comers? Why the absence of Indigenous thinkers, modern and historical?
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