...gender and race written by Eric Schwitzgebel et al. in 2021, although Hispanics are proportionately represented in philosophy among college majors, they become underrepresented at the PhD student level and...
This essay was originally published in Slate. That we’re living in a computer simulation—it sounds like a paranoid fantasy. But it’s a possibility that futurists, philosophers, and scientific cosmologists treat...
Time to be a doomsayer! If technology continues on its current trajectory, we will soon be facing a moral catastrophe. We will create AI systems that some people reasonably regard...
How philosophers hire, tenure, and promote faculty in the U.S. likely contributes to philosophy’s low overall demographic diversity. For example, a recent study shows that the proportion of women in...
We were recently provided with a report from the APA that recounts work by Debra Nails and John Davenport to collect, organize, and analyze available data on the discipline over...
To view a contributors bio, click Hsiang-Yun Chen Hsiang-Yun Chen is an assistant research fellow at The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) at Academia Sinica and works primarily...
...responding to a demographic survey, 74% men, and 0.2% “something else”. Similarly, in 2017, Schwitzgebel and Jennings found that 25% of faculty in U.S. departments rated in the Philosophical Gourmet...
Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures. His areas of interest include philosophy...
...book, Singing in the Fire; consistently, they express doubting themselves and their philosophical acuity. In their report “Women in Philosophy,” Eric Schwitzgebel and Carolyn Dicey Jennings cite research showing the...
