Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy

The Frequency of “Brilliant” and “Genius” in Teaching Evaluations Predicts the Representation of Women and African Americans across Fields

Documentation, Experimental Data, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Intersectional, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Daniel Storage, Zachary Horne, Andrei Cimpian, Sarah-Jane Leslie
PloS One
2016

An Emphasis on Brilliance Fosters Masculinity-Contest Cultures

Documentation, Experimental Data, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Andrea C. Vial, Melis Muradoglu, George E. Newman, Andrei Cimpian
Psychological Science
2022

Can Precollege Philosophy Help Academic Philosophy’s Diversity Problem? Reflecting on What Diverse Philosophers Say about Early Exposure to Philosophy

Alternative Academic, Community Outreach, Content Diversity, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Independent Scholars, Interventions, Journal Article, Methodological and Content Diversity, Pedagogical Practices, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Post-doctoral, Pre-university Effects, Race/Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, Social Dynamics and Climate, Socio-economic Status, Student Recruitment and Retention, Theorizing, Transgender Identity, Undergraduate Student

Nic R. Jones; Debi Talukdar; Sara Goering
Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice
2022

Field Notes on the Naturalization and Denaturalization of Disability in (Feminist) Philosophy: What They Do and How They Do It

Content Diversity, Disability, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Shelley Lynn Tremain

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

2020

Recovering Early Modern Writers: Some Tensions

Content Diversity, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Identity Erasure, Interventions, Journal Article, Pedagogical Practices, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Publication Practices, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Jessica Gordon-Roth and Nancy Kendrick
Metaphilosophy
2019

Identity and Bias in Philosophy: What Philosophers Can Learn from Stem Subjects

Content Diversity, Gender, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Methodological and Content Diversity, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Publication Practices, Quantitative Data, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Yasemin J. Erden
Think: Philosophy for Everyone
2021

What Does a Philosopher Look Like? Women in the History of Philosophy”

Content Diversity, Gender, Journal Article, Methodological and Content Diversity, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Qualitative Studies, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Hannah Marije Altorf
Think: Philosophy for Everyone
2021

Novel Thought: An African American Woman Philosopher at Mid-Career

Community Outreach, Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Gender, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Testimonials

Anita L. Allen
APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy
2010r

The Role Model Argument for Faculty Diversity

Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Testimonials, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Anita L. Allen
Philosophical Forum
1992/2002

How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment

Book, Content Diversity, Documentation, Faculty, Tenure Track, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Qualitative Studies, Quantitative Data, Social Dynamics and Climate

Michèle Lamont
2009

Women are underrepresented in fields where success is believed to require brilliance

Documentation, Experimental Data, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Meredith Meyer; Andrei Cimpian; Sarah-Jane Leslie
Frontiers in Psychology
2015

Women—particularly underrepresented minority women—and early-career academics feel like impostors in fields that value brilliance

Documentation, Documentation, Experimental Data, Gender, Intersectional, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Melis Muradoglu; Zachary Horne; Matthew D. Hammond; Sarah-Jane Leslie; Andrei Cimpian
Journal of Educational Psychology
2022

Philosophy among the social sciences: Women, disciplines and progress

Content Diversity, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Fiona Jenkins

Journal of Social Philosophy

2021

What Might Be Learned from Recent Efforts in the Natural Sciences?

Demographic Data, Documentation, Employment Practices, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Interventions, Pedagogical Practices, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Publication Practices, Quantitative Data, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate, Student Recruitment and Retention, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Abigail J. Stewart

APA Newsletter on Women in Philosophy

2009

What Do the Numbers Mean?

Demographic Data, Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Quantitative Data, Relevance, Theorizing

Sharon Crasnow

APA Newsletter on Women in Philosophy

2009

Women in Philosophy: 21% of What?

Content Diversity, Gender, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Elizabeth K. Minnich

APA Newsletter on Women in Philosophy

2009

Why Are Women Only 21% of Philosophy?: Introduction to the Panel Presentations

Calls to Action, Gender, Identity Erasure, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Janet A. Kourany

APA Newsletter on Women in Philosophy

2009

On Being Good at Seeming Smart

Blog Post, Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Race/Ethnicity, Testimonials, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Eric Schwitzgebel

The Splintered Mind: reflections in philosophy of psychology, broadly construed

2010

Snookered: Pointlessness, Pugilism, Nit-Picking, Pin-Dancing — Possible Reasons Why Women Avoid Philosophy

Content Diversity, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Interventions, Methodological and Content Diversity, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate

David Papineau

The Times Literary Supplement

2015

Ranking Exercises in Philosophy and Implicit Bias

Gender, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Jennifer Saul

Hypatia

2012

Quantifying the Gender Gap: An Empirical Study of the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy

Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Molly Paxton; Carrie Figdor; Valerie Tiberius

Hypatia
2012

Prestige Bias: An Obstacle to a Just Academic Philosophy

Demographic Data, Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, First Generation, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Qualitative Studies, Quantitative Data, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Socio-economic Status, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Helen De Cruz

Ergo

2018

Discriminating Well: On Excellence in Philosophy and Ways of Seeing Disciplinary Space

Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Fiona Jenkins

Rivista Di Estetica

2017

Women or Philosophers?

Content Diversity, Gender, Identity Erasure, Interventions, Methodological and Content Diversity, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Rebecca Buxton; Lisa Whiting

The Philosophers’ Magazine

2021

Women in Philosophy: What’s Changed?

Gender, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Helen Beebee

The Philosophers’ Magazine

2021

Precluded Interests

Gender, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Pre-university Effects, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Cheshire Calhoun

Hypatia

2015

Power, Pedagogy, and the ‘Women Problem’: Ameliorating Philosophy

Content Diversity, Gender, Identity Erasure, Interventions, Journal Article, Methodological and Content Diversity, Pedagogical Practices, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Race/Ethnicity, Student Recruitment and Retention, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Hilkje Charlotte Haenel

Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis

2017

Pluralism and Peer Review in Philosophy

Content Diversity, Faculty, Tenure Track, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Demographic

Joel Katsav; Krist Vaesen

Philosophers’ Imprint

2017

Philosophy’s Diversity Problem: Understanding the Underrepresentation of Women and Minorities in Philosophy

Content Diversity, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

A.E. Kings

Metaphilosophy

2019

Philosophy, Adversarial Argumentation, and Embattled Reason

Content Diversity, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Phyllis Rooney

Informal Logic: Reasoning and Argumentation in Theory and Practice

2010

Philosophy – a Domain for the White Male Genius?

Documentation, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Race/Ethnicity, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Sven Ove Hansson

Theoria

2015

On Gender and Philosophical Intuition: Failure of Replication and Other Negative Results

Documentation, Experimental Data, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Pre-university Effects, Quantitative Data, Theorizing

Hamid Seyedsayamdost

Philosophical Psychology

2014

Is Asking What Women Want the Right Question? Underrepresentation in Philosophy and Gender Differences in Interests

Content Diversity, Gender, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Stacey Goguen

Philosophy and Its Borders

2018

Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Political Correctness in Philosophy

Documentation, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Sean Hermanson

Philosophies

2017

Implicit Bias and Reform Efforts in Philosophy: A Defence

Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Jules Holroyd; Jennifer Saul

Philosophical Topics

2018

Implicit Bias and Gender (and Other Sorts of) Diversity in Philosophy and the Academy in the Context of the Corporatized University

Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Margaret A. Crouch

Journal of Social Philosophy

2012

Rejecting Beliefs, or Rejecting Believers? On the Importance and Exclusion of Women in Philosophy

Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Post-doctoral, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Geoffrey S. Holtzman

Hypatia

2016

Response to Comment on “Expectations of Brilliance Underlie Gender Distributions across Academic Disciplines”

Demographic Data, Documentation, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Race/Ethnicity, Theorizing

Andrei Cimpian; Sarah-Jane Leslie

Science

2015

Legitimizing Blacks in Philosophy

Calls to Action, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Jameliah Shorter-Bourhanou

Journal of World Philosophies

2017

Similarity and Enjoyment: Predicting Continuation for Women in Philosophy.

Gender, Interventions, Journal Article, Pedagogical Practices, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Student Recruitment and Retention, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Heather Demarest; Seth Robertson; Megan Haggard; Madeline Martin-Seaver; Jewelle Bickell

Analysis

2017

Is the Lack of Women in Philosophy a Universal Phenomenon? Exploring Women’s Representation in Greek Departments of Philosophy

Demographic Data, Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Geographical, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Pre-university Effects, Quantitative Data, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Simoni Iliadi; Kostas Theologou; Spyridon Stelios

Hypatia

2018

In Defence of Different Voices

Content Diversity, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Post-doctoral, Pre-university Effects, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Helen Beebee; Anne-Marie McCallion

Symposion

2020

Implicit Bias and the Idealized Rational Self

Demographic Data, Documentation, Experimental Data, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Qualitative Studies, Quantitative Data, Race/Ethnicity, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Nora Berenstain

Ergo

2018

Gender, Inter/Disciplinarity and Marginality in the Social Sciences and Humanities: A Comparison of Six Disciplines

Documentation, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Rebecca Pearse; James N. Hitchcock; Helen Keane

Women’s Studies International Forum

2019

From a ‘Memorable Place’ to ‘Drops in the Ocean’: On the Marginalization of Women Philosophers in German Historiography of Philosophy

Content Diversity, Gender, Interventions, Journal Article, Methodological and Content Diversity, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer

British Journal for the History of Philosophy

2019

Feminist Innovation in Philosophy: Relational Autonomy and Social Justice

Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing

Catriona Mackenzie

Women’s Studies International Forum

2018

Female Under-Representation Among Philosophy Majors: A Map of the Hypotheses and a Survey of the Evidence

Content Diversity, Gender, Identity Erasure, Journal Article, Pedagogy, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Pre-university Effects, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Tom Dougherty; Samuel Baron; Kristie Miller

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

2015

Women in Philosophy

Gender, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Periodical, Relevance, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Jennifer Saul

The Philosophers’ Magazine

2015

Fair Numbers: What Data Can and Cannot Tell Us About the Underrepresentation of Women in Philosophy

Calls to Action, Employment Practices, Gender, Interventions, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Social Dynamics and Climate, Theorizing, Unspecified Status

Yann Benétreau-Dupin; Guillaume Beaulac

Ergo

2015

Explanations of the Gender Gap in Philosophy

Demographic Data, Documentation, Faculty, Non-Tenure Track, Faculty, Tenure Track, Gender, Graduate Student, Journal Article, Perception of Philosophers/Philosophy, Quantitative Data, Theorizing, Undergraduate Student

Morgan Thompson

Philosophy Compass

2017