In each case, we find that proponents of the discrimination hypothesis, who include distinguished philosophers in fields such as philosophy of science, metaphysics, and philosophy of language, have tended to present evidence selectively. They cite six sources of evidence to support their contention: (1) gender disparities that increase along the path from undergraduate student to full-time faculty member (2) anecdotal accounts of discrimination in philosophy (3) research on gender bias in the evaluation of manuscripts, grants, and curricula vitae in other academic disciplines (4) psychological research on implicit bias (5) psychological research on stereotype threat and (6) the relatively small number of articles written from a feminist perspective in leading philosophy journals. 4)Ī number of philosophers attribute the underrepresentation of women in philosophy largely to bias against women or some kind of wrongful discrimination.
None of these people, however, should be assumed to agree with the main claims of this paper.Įditor’s Note: This is the complete version of an article with the same title adapted for the Winter 2014 Academic Questions (vol. Stamos, Matej Sušnik, Omri Tal, Daniel Wikler, Wendy M. Ceci, Andrew Irvine, Paisley Livingston, Darrell Rowbottom, Nosson ben Ruvein, David N. The authors thank these individuals for useful comments on earlier drafts: Tomislav Bracanović, Stephen J.
Rafael De Clercq is associate professor and head of the Department of Visual Studies, and adjunct associate professor of philosophy, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, NT, Hong Kong. He is the author of Making Sense of Heritability (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Neven Sesardic is professor of philosophy at Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, NT, Hong Kong.
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