This may vary with country. I know philosophy teaching in the UK isn’t like this, but have heard it as a criticism of the way it is taught in America (A friend doing a semester abroad at a US institution once despaired that the final exam included the question “when was Descartes meditations published”).
This may vary with country. I know philosophy teaching in the UK isn’t like this, but have heard it as a criticism of the way it is taught in America (A friend doing a semester abroad at a US institution once despaired that the final exam included the question “when was Descartes meditations published”).