Tag: data
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How to Show that Studying Philosophy Improves Thinking Skills
How would you determine whether studying philosophy improves critical thinking?
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Studying Philosophy Makes People Better Thinkers: Further Data
A new study “offers the strongest evidence to date that studying philosophy does indeed make people better thinkers.”
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Are Human Reasoning Abilities Declining?
In a piece at the Financial Times (and in a Bluesky thread about it), John Burn-Murdoch, the chief data reporter for the newspaper, goes over some of the…
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Author Gender in Elite Philosophy Journals (guest post) (updated)
What percentage of the authors in elite philosophy journals are women?
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A Trove of Data about Philosophy Departments in the US
How many philosophy departments are there in the United States? How many people do they employ? How many students are there in philosophy courses…
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How Many People Applied for Academic Philosophy Jobs in 2024? (guest post)
How many people applied to academic philosophy jobs last year? Which types of institutions had the most applicants? Which types of jobs?
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The 253 Most Cited Works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (guest post)
What are the most cited works in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP)?
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Trouble in the US Non-Academic Job Market and What It Means for Philosophers (guest post)
“I’m here to sound a warning bell for those who are now in the position I was several years ago.”
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Philosophy Major Retention Data
How many college graduates end up getting their undergraduate degree in the major they declared when they initially started college?
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Why Do Journal Articles Linger in “Online First”?
Some philosophy journals have a lot of articles in “online first” status. They’ve been accepted, copyedited, and typeset, but not yet assigned an issue.…
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Most Cited Recent Philosophy Articles, Year by Year
“What philosophy journal article, published less than ten years ago, has the most citations in philosophy journals?”
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A New Tool to Track and Analyze Philosophers’ Mentions (guest post)
Philosophers have always referred to other philosophers in their writing, but not always with citations.
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More Minorities Are Earning Degrees in Philosophy
The percentage of bachelor’s degrees in philosophy awarded to members of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States has more than doubled since…
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Grad Program Data: Climate, Mental Health, Employment, Demographics
What do current and former graduate students think of the culture in their graduate programs? Are they satisfied with its climate? With how diverse…
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The Not-So-Silent Generation in Philosophy (guest post)
“What explains the Silent Generation’s disproportionate representation among the most influential philosophers in the mainstream Anglophone tradition?”
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The Benefits of Studying Philosophy: Not Just Selection Effects?
Philosophy majors do well according to various measures of critical reasoning and intellectual habits. But is this an effect of studying philosophy, or an…
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New Placement Data
Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis (APDA) has been updated to include information through 2023, and the new data has been incorporated into its interactive…
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Doing Philosophy in English: A Survey for Native and Non-Native Speakers
“Academic English,” the dominant language of contemporary philosophy, is different from everyday English. What are the challenges faced by native and non-native speakers of…
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Philosophy Job Market Report for January-June 2024
How was the academic philosophy job market during last season’s “secondary cycle”?
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The “Academic Great Gatsby Curve” in Philosophy
The “Great Gatsby Curve” describes the positive correlation between “income inequality” and “intergenerational income persistence” (lack of income mobility). An academic Great Gatsby curve…