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There is no denying that, both in the authors assigned in standard curricula and in the make-up of graduate students and faculty, white males are disproportiona
by noise_ramones 11y ago
There is no denying that, both in the authors assigned in standard curricula and in the make-up of graduate students and faculty, white males are disproportionately represented in philosophy departments in the U.S. and Europe.
I would simply like to register the fact that, among current graduate students and (typically young) professors at the departments with which I am familiar (basically the Leiter top 30), this is generally an issue of grave concern. I know many people who work very hard to combat this. There are many collaborative efforts to construct alternative syllabi for mainstay classes (e.g. epistemology, ethics), to open real lines of dialogue with scholars who have historically been seen as "peripheral" to the enterprise of analytic philosophy (e.g. people who work on Buddhist philosophy, or Islamic philosophy), and to identify and redress the reasons that philosophy tends to overwhelmingly draw white males.
I don't mean to excuse the status quo. There is a lot of work still to be done. I simply want to point out that the advice of the authors of this article has not gone totally unheeded.
- reader5000 11y agoDisproportionate to what? What is the expected proportioning that you think the make-up of grad students in the west violates?