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If you accept the input of a random old time listener, it would make me quite sad if you skipped over material for the sake of being able to cover everything up to the present day. After all, the whole point of this series was supposed to be the opposite of the typical "The entire History of Chinese Philosophy: from Confucius to Mao in 200 pages!". I understand skipping stuff is inevitable or else we would still be covering Plato, but please avoid the temptation of prioritizing temporal and geographical extension over completeness. The thing that makes this project particularly valuable compared to most other histories of philosophy is its commitment not to have gaps. It would be sad if the project did indeed end up having a lot of gaps or else it couldn't have made "from 200 to 2000 in 60 episodes", because then it becomes just another (and forgettable) history of philosophy.

Each option sounds compelling for its own reasons, and if you do find co-authors, covering Americas after China, then later India, China, and Americas would be cyclical. But I'd be equally excited for later India too, and there's plenty of material to cover for early modern, and 20th century India presents opportunities to cover formative thinker-activists in the Indian republic, as well as academic philosophers like Bimal Matilal.

Given the sheer amount of material, later India could be two books too (early modern, and 19th, 20th-21st century). Interview guests, I'd imagine, could also include leading intellectual historians, biographers, and social scientists since there's a LOT of original political thought coming out of colonial and post-colonial India. (There's, of course, plenty of work in other areas too - e.g. Matilal's writings across almost all the major areas of philosophy, and his pioneering of comparative/fusion philosophy)

In parallel, as the Europe/West series approaches modernity, would there be a separate series for (North) America and the US distinct from the Europe one? Again, many key thinkers have been covered in the Africana series, but philosophers like Thoreau, James, Dewey, and perhaps some of the 18th-century founding figures and documents. But for modern and contemporary Western philosophy, it seems to me that two parallel/serial series might offer clearer coverage?

Seconded on the Americas, that would be phenomenal.  I have James Maffie's book on Aztec philosophy, it's quite good but I haven't gotten very far into it.  I'm also attempting to learn as much about Haudeosaunee (Iroquois) philosophy as I can.  Definitely this is oft-neglected territory.  Big-picture obsessive that I am, I'm also mindful that Oceania could be unrepresented, so perhaps it would be a good option to shoehorn that in with the Americas, so that all places outside Afro-Eurasia can be covered.  Maybe you could call it The Indigenous World or something along those lines.

In response to Tarun G's last question, I would expect that the U.S. would have it's own separate tranche like you've been doing with the Italian Renaissance, France, England, and beyond.

To be quite honest, I'm concerned that you might not be able to complete this whole entire series because of the instability of the whole online ecosystem; between the advent of malefic AI being unleashed upon the world, the chaos & mayhem of online media platforms, the stability of all Big Data clouds, etc,...so if we have something like a Systems Collapse this decade, that would put an end of this whole thing, not to mention all other long-term chronological podcasts.  Who knows, we might be able to get our own personal Peter Adamson AI dopplelganger to generate all kinds of crazy HoP podcasts.  Weeeeee!!!!  Oh well, at least there's pen, paper and old-school printing presses!