Showing posts with label demographics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label demographics. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Eek! The Plummeting Philosophy Major in the U.S.

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Three years ago, I posted some optimistic reflections about how the philosophy major seemed to be recovering from its recent decline in the...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2025

Women Earned 37% of U.S. Philosophy Doctorates in 2024, Up from 28% Ten Years Ago

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... but what explains the change? For about 25 years, from the 1990s to the mid 2010s, the percentage of women earning PhDs in philosophy ...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philosophy: Good Practices Guide

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Strange that it need be said, but yes, diversity, equity, and inclusion are good things. I can understand some of the backlash against effo...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

16% of Authors in Elite Philosophy Journals Are Women

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In some ways, the gender situation has been improving in philosophy. Women now constitute about 40% of graduating majors in philosophy in ...
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Monday, August 12, 2024

Women Constitute 12% and People of Color 3% of the Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Last week, I posted a list of the 376 most-cited contemporary authors (born 1900 or later) in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Cit...
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Friday, January 12, 2024

Demographic Trends in the U.S. Philosophy Major, 2001-2022 -- Including Total Majors, Second Majors, Gender, and Race

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I'm preparing for an Eastern APA session on the "State of Philosophy" next Thursday, and I thought I'd share some data on...
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Thursday, February 16, 2023

U.S. Philosophy PhDs Are Still Overwhelmingly Non-Hispanic White (Though a Bit Less So Than 10 Years Ago)

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Nine years ago, I compared the racial and ethnic composition of U.S. academic philosophy , as measured by PhDs awarded, with that of the oth...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

The Philosophy Major Continues to Recover and Diversify in the U.S.

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The National Center for Education Statistics has released their data on bachelor's degree completions in the U.S. through the 2019-2020 ...
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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Disability, Sexuality, Political Leaning, Socio-Economic Background, and Other Demographic Data on Recent Philosophy PhD Recipients

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... hot from the Academic Placement and Data Analysis project, run by Carolyn Dicey Jennings . (I'm on the APDA board of directors.)...
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