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Percent of U.S. Philosophy PhD Recipients Who Are Women: A 50-Year Perspective (guest post) (updated)

Has there been a recent uptick in the percentage of women among philosophy PhD recipients? (more…)

New Guide to Terminal MA Programs in Philosophy

What kind of advice can you offer students trying to figure out which terminal MA program in philosophy to apply to or attend? (more…)

Does Studying Philosophy Develop Special Skills That Improve One’s Intuitions?

A new study suggests the answer to that question is “no.” Rather, according to the study’s authors, what explains why the intuitions about particular cases of those who’ve studied philosophy differ from others is simply that they’ve been taught the standard interpretation of those specific cases, while the others have not. (more…)

Percentage of Women Philosophy Majors Has Risen Sharply Since 2016 — Why? Or: The 2017 Knuckle (guest post)

What explains the recent sharp increase in women philosophy majors? (more…)

Areas of Specialization in Philosophy — Data from 2022-23 (guest post)

What areas of specialization (AOS) are philosophy departments hiring in? (more…)

New Data on the Employment of Philosophy PhDs (guest post)

As noted in yesterday’s post, Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA) has completed its data gathering for nearly 150 philosophy PhD programs, with a new data dashboard capturing nearly 6,000 philosophy PhD graduates between 2013 and 2023. (more…)

New Interface for Academic Philosophy Data & Analysis (guest post)

Academic Philosophy & Data Analysis (APDA), an ongoing project to collect, analyze, and distribute data about job placement, student experience, and other aspects of PhD programs in philosophy, is launching a new “data dashboard” through which people can explore the information it has collected. (more…)

Job Market Report, 2023 Secondary Cycle (guest post)

How did the academic philosophy job market look between January and June, 2023? (more…)

New Site Collects and Standardizes Philosophy Journal Information

The Philosophy Journal Insight Project (PJIP) “aims to provide philosophy researchers with practical insights on potential venues for publication.” (more…)

2023 QS Rankings in Philosophy

The 2023 “QS World University Rankings” have been published. These contain rankings by subject matter, including philosophy.

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How Often Are Philosophy Articles Actually Cited? Encouraging News (guest post)

In the following guest post, Eric Schwitzgebel (UC Riverside) recounts what he found when, prompted by claims about how infrequently academic philosophy articles are cited, he looked at the citation rates of articles published in a few journals a decade ago. (more…)

Recent Data About Philosophy PhDs

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released some data about people who received PhDs in philosophy in the United States in 2021. (more…)

Gender in Philosophy Hiring

When it comes to finding a permanent academic position in philosophy, “women have 58–114 percent greater odds than men, or a probability difference of 10–17 percent.” (more…)

Philosophy’s Happiness Literature: More of It, More Empirical (guest post)

In the following guest post, Michael Prinzing (Yale) discusses trends in philosophical discussions of happiness and well-being. (more…)

How Much Do Philosophers Referee?

Last week, we asked how many journal submissions philosophers in various positions referee each year. (more…)

How Much Do You Referee?

How many journal submissions do you referee each year? (more…)

New Data about Philosophy Graduate Programs (guest post)

In the following guest post, Carolyn Dicey Jennings, associate professor of philosophy at UC Merced, shares some new data about graduate programs in philosophy that she and her team at Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) have collected and analyzed. (more…)

Philosophy Sees Decrease in PhDs Conferred In Recent Years

After a slow and steady increase from 1998 through 2011, the number of PhDs conferred in philosophy in the United States has been decreasing, according to a report from Humanities Indicators. (more…)

2021-2022 Philosophy Job Market Analysis

The market for tenure-track jobs in philosophy “was vastly better than last year’s COVID-impacted season, but still not quite up to the level of TT job ads pre-COVID.” (more…)

New Name & Updated Site for Information about Graduate Programs in Philosophy

APDA is retaining its initials but altering its name to better match its activities as an “ongoing project that collects, analyzes, and distributes data concerning philosophy PhD programs and graduates, with a special focus on job placement.” (more…)

A Little Rough Data About Journal Refereeing in Philosophy

Is there a refereeing crisis in philosophy? There has been a fair amount of discussion about this over the past couple of months. What was missing from much of this discussion, though, was data. So I asked for some. (more…)

New Data on Women in Philosophy Journals

How much writing by women do philosophy journals publish? How does this vary by quality and type of journal? How does it vary by the type of reviewing manuscripts undergo? How have women’s rates of publication changed over time? (more…)

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 to a new study that uses corpus linguistic analysis to search their works for “indicator pairs” of words that are likely to differentiate between deductive, inductive, and abductive arguments. (m..