&gt; History of philosophy is a major part of all philosophy programs<p>Right or wrong, modern philosophers at top universities would claim that they teach history of philosophy for the same modest reason that physicists learn about Newton: so they can get some context about how various ideas developed and the reason for conventions.  Analytical philosophers generally <i>resist</i> about having to teach history of philosophy.<p>&gt; the list of topics that are discussed in the non-history topics are those that were discussed by the old European philosophers.<p>What topics discussed by non-European philosophers do you think are neglected?<p>Yes it&#x27;s hard to imagine there isn&#x27;t bias in topic selection, but then this needs to be addressed by convincing modern researchers that whatever non-European ideas are better on their merits, not by studying modern non-European philosophy as a separate topic.