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    Category: Women in philosophy

    • Gender ratios of papers published in Ethics and the Journal of Moral Philosophy

      Below is a guest post by Kathryn Norlock (Trent University).  I have long believed the conventional wisdom that women are not proportionately distributed through every subfield in philosophy.  In my field of theoretical ethics, in particular, it is often said that more women in philosophy seem to be found here than are in the profession…

    • Citation Analysis of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

      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…

    • Intelligence as a Criticism

      When the NewAPPS bloggers first invited me to submit a guest post on my attention research as a graduate student, I decided to submit a post on the term "genius" instead. In the case that it was the only post I would write, I wanted the post to have maximum utility. After some thought, I…

    • Job Placement 2011-2014: Overview on Gender

      I have data on 715 candidates who have been placed in tenure-track, postdoctoral, VAP, or instructor positions between late 2011 and mid 2014 (ending today), drawn from ProPhilosophy (2011-2012 and 2012-2013) and PhilAppointments (2013-2014). I aim to make the spreadsheet with this data available by around July 1st (I will add any new data available…

    • CFP: Conference on Diversity in Philosophy

      Over at Feminist Philosophers, they've posted the CFP for a conference on Diversity in Philosophy that, I'm proud to say, is being hosted and co-sposored by my alma mater, Villanova University, along with Hypatia and the APA's Committee for the Status of Women.   The conference will be held at Villanova on May 28-30, 2015 and the deadline…

    • A principle of parity in gender matters

      Some years ago, at the end of an evening that probably involved more alcoholic beverages than it should have, I found myself as a member of a small party of four, composed of two colleagues (and incidentally, good friends) and one PhD student (all three male). As the conversation progressed, I ended up saying things…

    • Anonymous Grading

      In my role as intructional faculty, I aim to grade everything anonymously, which is a provision I enjoyed as an undergraduate. My current method is to ask students to write their names on the back of their papers and exams, which also helps me to return them. One of my students remarked that I must…

    • Gender, Characterization, and Memory

      This blog officially has 16 authors, 6 of whom are women. A quick glance to the category cloud will show you that one of the most prolific authors is a woman. So then why does a commentator at Philosophy MetaBlog characterize the blog as run by men? This is the comment linked to by Brian…

    • The Gourmet Ranking and Gender: How Can It Improve?

      I noted in another post the apparent difference in impact of the Philosophical Gourmet ranking of one's PhD granting institution on tenure-track placement according to gender, following up on posts elsewhere (here, here, and here). In this post I want to follow up on a speculation that I made in comments that the apparent difference…

    • The *Apparent* Impact of Gourmet Rank on Women and Men Seeking Tenure-Track Jobs

      Marcus Arvan at the Philosophers' Cocoon posted sample data from the new appointments site at PhilJobs, which is discussed in a great post by Helen de Cruz here at New APPS. In comments at de Cruz's post and in a new post Arvan discusses the impact of Gourmet ranking on women and men seeking tenure-track…