I'm spinning out a series of posts at The Splintered Mind, based on a new citation database my son built for me, from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Maybe it will be of interest to some NewAPPS readers.
The 266 Most Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Citation of Women and Minorities in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
They are overwhelmingly white Anglo-Saxon men. I don’t think a single name is not of Northern European origin. Is this not worth noting or is the implicit bias so deep-roted that it becomes invisible? (Genuine question!) SEP is largely ‘analytic’ and past-oriented, but still, even if these citation patterns were inevitable we can’t ignore the fact that they’re bound to reinforce a certain stereotype of the philosopher as a white man of Northern European descent, preferably a native speaker of English.
Now combine that with the results showing that things said in a foreign accent are less likely to be believed, and with philosophers’ habit of appealing to intuitions, and you have a pretty good recipe for yet another variety of bias.
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