...have purportedly been trying to diversify the philosophical canon, Michael Beany has observed that the canon is still “absurdly narrow” (viz., Weinberg 2018), and Eric Schwitzgebel reports that, in spite...
Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher at University of California, Riverside, and a prolific blogger, has stirred up some controversy by studying whether ethics professors are morally better than others. As you...
by Sherri Conklin, Eric Schwitzgebel, and Nicole Hassoun. Philosophy needs to diversify. Come join us at the Pacific Division meeting to tell us what departments can do to improve. Join...
...with Eric Schwitzgebel about his Perplexities of Consciousness and Gerald Gaus about his The Order of Public Reason. Since its start, the podcast’s audience has been growing steadily. Currently, each...
by Sherri Conklin, Nicole Hassoun, and Eric Schwitzgebel The Demographics in Philosophy project aims to increase diversity in the discipline. To this end, we have initiated a broadly consultative process...
...research in philosophy. As Eric Schwitzgebel has pointed out, this view of our discipline leads to a recruitment based on the ability to seem smart. Just like seeming honest, seeming...
by Nicole Hassoun, Eric Schwitzgebel, and Subrena Smith Unfortunately, philosophy is among the least demographically diverse academic disciplines in North America (women-in-philosophy.org). For example, women in all of academia account for...
...(Schwitzgebel and Jennings 2017). However, among elite Anglophone philosophy journals (as measured by reputational polls), women are only about 12-16% of authors of research articles (Schwitzgebel and Jennings 2017; Wilhelm,...
Eric Schwitzgebel has a pleasingly liberal view of what constitutes philosophy. A philosopher is anyone wrestling with the “biggest picture framing issues” of… well, anything. In a keynote session at...
...of having a guiding idea that carries through the whole story and organizes it. I also especially enjoy Eric Schwitzgebel’s talk about what philosophers have to contribute to fiction. I...
