Well then I stand corrected on what philosophers (at least analytic ones) believe.  I even agree that mathematics is the closest thing to Analytic philosophy.  But it is still very telling that in your third para, you list names instead of theorems.<p>And you are right to do so, for the reasons I explained in my post above.<p>When you talk of current research, then sure, you talk of modern philosophers.  But that&#x27;s still studying a tradition: just the latest versions of it.  When teaching students you reach further back in time (just as maths students learn ancient theorems rather than modern ones).<p>The conceptual barriers to entry that you say face Asian contributions are a consequenceof the whole discipline having learned more Aristotle than Kongzi in philosophy 101.  Because the 101 class (in any field) is what sets the terminology and background assumptions behind even modern research.