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According to Smith, most of the academic departments of Philosophy remain inclined towards Western philosophy alone to the point of foreclosing the rich philosophical traditions of Eastern societies. He argues in favour of the greater representation of non-Western philosophy which according to him will help to bring about greater diversity among the women and men who make up the philosophical community.
In order to promote greater heterogeneity and mutual exchange of ideas, Smith suggests that the intellectual community must try to do away with dichotomising the field of knowledge in terms of Western and non-Western and instead emphasise on more geographically localised terminology to discuss a particular thought such as Persian Sufism, Japanese Shintoism just as we would mention Kantian morality, Or German Aristotelian Scholasticism. An alternative approach to the history of philosophy would be treat both Western and non-Western philosophy as the regional differences in thought of a global phenomenon.