We will focus on approaches to these questions from “analytic” philosophy, including feminist and race-critical approaches and approaches from the philosophy of science. The aim is to confront the big ...

We’re aware that fewer women study the sciences and math, but it might come as a surpirse that men outnumber women in certain humanities as well.

Sally Haslanger's latest paper won't appear until next year, in the journal Hypatia, but a version she posted online is attracting considerable attention by pointing out the limits of progress for ...

Despite being a male-dominated field, a recent study found no evidence for gender bias against women in philosophy, in terms of securing tenure-track positions as college professors. So why are ...

Academic philosophy is an outlier within the humanities, with fewer than 20 percent of full-time faculty positions occupied by women. Commentator Tania Lombrozo discusses some recent findings that ...

Critics blasted an article in Hypatia as harmful and insensitive to issues of race and gender, and its associate editors apologized. But the journal’s leaders say the statement doesn’t speak ...

A debate has arisen among philosophers concerning a couple of papers published recently in the prestigious journal Philosophical Studies. The first paper, ...

Socrates, Plato, Decartes — nearly all famous philosophers are men, and the Penn Philosophy Department’s demographics also skew male. Only four out of 14 members of the Philosophy Department are ...

Helen E. Longino, Taking Gender Seriously in Philosophy of Science, PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, Vol. 1992, Volume Two: Symposia and Invited ...

The Future of Gender and Race: Will race and gender still exist in the future? Should we try to work for a race-free and gender-free world, or should these ways or classifying people be preserved? We ...