Professor Bryan W. Van Norden has recently published TAKING BACK PHILOSOPHY: A MULTICULTURAL MANIFESTO. A renowned expert in Chinese philosophy, Professor Van Norden taught for 20 years in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Vassar College. Currently, he is Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Visiting Professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. In TAKING BACK PHILOSOPHY, Professor Van Norden contends that:
"American colleges and universities failing their students by refusing to teach the philosophical traditions of China, India, Africa, and other non-Western cultures[.] … Even though we live in an increasingly multicultural world, most philosophy departments stubbornly insist that only Western philosophy is real philosophy and denigrate everything outside the European canon. … Taking Back Philosophy[] … lambastes academic philosophy for its Eurocentrism, insularity, and complicity with nationalism and issues a ringing call to make our educational institutions live up to their cosmopolitan ideals."
Here is an excerpt from the book. Additionally, in 2016, Professor Van Norden and Professor Jay L. Garfield of Yale-NUS College co-authored this widely noted piece in the New York Times.