It&#x27;s addressed in the article. They specifically address this point, and argue that philosophy is different, because there are distinctive traditions and approaches in non-western philosophy that nonetheless are recognizably doing philosophy in the same sense as European and American philosophers.<p>In contract, there are Chinese physicists and Chinese mathematicians, but they&#x27;re doing math and physics the same way that Europeans and Americans do it.<p>Edit: made this non-snarky. Sorry for that.