Julia Bursten is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Francisco State University and is Co-chair of the Philosophy of Science Association Women’s Caucus. Her research in the history and...
The applicant pool for Philosophy department faculty positions, makeup of graduate Philosophy cohorts, and undergraduate Philosophy enrollment statistics depend on the existence of undergraduate students interested in studying Philosophy and...
...and 17% came from underrepresented minorities (compared to 21%). The differences between philosophy and the rest of academia were narrowest among doctorate recipients, where the share of women earning philosophy...
...in the leaky pipeline—the problem of women and racial minorities leaving the field—relate to how we teach philosophy, especially at introductory undergraduate levels. But what needs to change? One obvious...
...to emphasize that there is a lot we can learn by paying attention to other excluded domains, such as Latin American Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, Maori Philosophy, Native American...
...sponsored by the Committee on Philosophy and Law 9:00 a.m. Jobs and Rewards: Teaching Philosophy at Community Colleges, sponsored by the Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges 9:00 a.m. Author-Meets-Critics:...
To reaffirm a statement made by Kristen Irwin (whose excellent series on women and family in the academy appears on the APA blog), This is not to say that fathers...
...as Acting Executive Director. I did so for eighteen months, and it broadened my perspective on philosophy in North America in ways that I could never have imagined. In those...
...tackled topics outside the standard canon of European thought, looking extensively at philosophy in the Islamic world and, more recently (with the help of co-author Jonardon Ganeri), philosophy in ancient...
