Category: diversity
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APA Publishes “Good Practices for Improving Representation in Philosophy Departments” (updated)
“One thing that has become clear over the course of many discussions is that almost every thoughtful reader will find something to object to…
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Multiplicity and Belonging instead of Affirmative Action and DEI (guest post)
“It is time to replace the ideas behind affirmative action and DEI programs in higher education with more progressive concepts that better describe current…
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Some Virtues Become Vices When Too Many People Possess Them (guest post)
“If individual vices can be virtuous from the perspective of a group, is the inverse also true? Does this mean that virtues, in some…
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Sanders Foundation Now Supporting Philosophy’s Diversity Reading List
The Diversity Reading List (DRL) (previously), which gathers and organizes philosophical texts written by authors from groups that have typically been underrepresented in philosophy and…
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Diversity-Oriented Undergraduate Summer Programs in Philosophy (updated)
At least four five summer programs in philosophy for undergraduate students are designed especially for members of groups that traditionally have been underrepresented in…
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U.S. Philosophy PhDs: Still Overwhelmingly White
How has the racial and ethnic composition of philosophy PhDs in the US changed over the past decade or so?
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LogIn Project Aims to Make the Field of Logic More Inclusive
LogIn is a project that aims to bring demographic diversity to logic and formal philosophy.
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Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Fundraiser — with Matching from Marc Sanders Foundation
Minorities and Philosophy International (MAP) is a network of graduate student-run chapters which together seek to address structural injustices in academic philosophy and remove…
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Do Men and Women Philosophers Argue Differently?
There is no statistically significant gender difference in the argument types used by frequently cited contemporary men and women philosophers in their articles, according…
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Philosophy Reading Group “Blueprints” & What’s Not Taught at University
Students and others may be interested in a philosophical topic, yet not have access to a course on it. One option is for them…
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Women in Philosophy: Recent Reports (updated)
Two studies have recently been conducted on the status of women in the philosophy profession, with one published by the British Philosophical Association (BPA)…
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How Military Veterans Contribute to Academic Philosophy (guest post)
Before becoming a philosopher, Descartes studied and then taught military engineering as a soldier. Wittgenstein penned the Tractatus as an artilleryman in World War…
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Recruitment and Hiring Strategies to Make Philosophy More Diverse
The Demographics in Philosophy Project has issued a set of diversity-enhancing recommendations for philosophy department recruitment and hiring practices.
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Peter Singer On His New Yorker Interview
In a recent interview in The New Yorker, Daniel Gross asked philosopher Peter Singer (Princeton) a question about race and who he chooses to…