May 11, 2010
Inter-Culturality and Research

'It was only recently (in terms of philosophical measuring of time spans) that European academic philosophy discovered its own non-European roots, namely African and ancient oriental thinking, and started to question wholly any universal claim of its notions and approaches. Suddenly, the scope of examination changed and focused on African philosophy, Indian philosophy, Chinese thinking and indigenous approaches in Latin America, while sometimes trivially ignoring all borders between folkloric depiction of myths and traditions and serious research.'

Within the KEF-project 'Researchers on the Move - Intercultural Dimensions in Science and Humanities' the blog article by Johannes M. Waldmueller is now online.

The author was born in Vienna (Austria), holds degrees in Philosophy and International Development from University of Vienna, including exchange periods in Berlin and Lausanne. He is currently enrolled as doctoral student in Philosophy (Univ. of Vienna) and as PhD-candidate at the Institut de Hautes Études Internationales et du Développement / The Graduate Institute (Geneva).

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Blogsite: http://www.researchers-on-the-move.net