| Author(s) | Verena Erlenbusch |
| Journal | Hypatia |
| Thematic Cluster/Special Issue | Cluster on Foreigners in Philosophy |
| Abstract | The question of diversity, both with regard to the demographic profile of philosophers as well as the content of philosophical inquiry, has received much attention in recent years. One figure that has gone relatively unnoticed is that of the foreigner. To the extent that philosophers have taken the foreigner as their object of inquiry, they have focused largely on challenges non-native speakers of English face in a profession conducted predominantly in English. Yet an understanding of the foreigner in terms of the non-native speaker does not exhaust the conceptual space of the foreigner. This article provides a more nuanced conceptual apparatus that allows for a more precise identification and discussion of other ways in which one can be a foreigner in philosophy. I develop a taxonomy of different conceptions of the foreigner, namely the linguistic, material, cultural, and epistemic foreigner; I discuss the different and specific challenges they face; and I show how foreigners enrich philosophical practice. |
| Keywords | Nonnative speakers; Cultural foreigners; Epistemic foreigners; Pedigree; Prestige bias; Intellectual diversity; Ameliorative projects This content was generated by artificial intelligence using the text of the original work. |
| Date Published | Spring 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 307-324 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12377 |
| URL | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/hypa.12377 |
| Google Scholar Link | https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=5237318132746200133&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 |
| Open Access? | No |
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