Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?

282 Pages·2013·1.333 MB·English

by  Katrina Hutchison, Fiona Jenkins

Women in Philosophy
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Women in Philosophy
WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE?
Edited by
Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins
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Women in philosophy: what needs to change? / edited by
Katrina Hutchison and Fiona Jenkins.
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ISBN 978–0–19–932562–7 (updf) 1. Women philosophers. I. Hutchison, Katrina,
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{ CONTENTS }
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Searching for Sofi a: Gender and
Philosophy in the 21st Century 1
FIONA JENKINS AND KATRINA HUTCHISON
1. Women in Philosophy: Why Should We Care? 21
MARILYN FRIEDMAN
2. Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Women in Philosophy 39
JENNIFER   SAUL
3. Women and Deviance in Philosophy 61
HELEN   BEEBEE
4. Singing the Post-discrimination Blues: Notes for a Critique of
Academic Meritocracy 81
FIONA JENKINS
5. Sages and Cranks: The Diffi culty of Identifying
First-Rate Philosophers 103
KATRINA HUTCHISON
6. Models and Values: Why Did New Zealand Philosophy Departments
Stop Hiring Women Philosophers? 127
ADRIANE   RINI
7. Not Just a Pipeline Problem: Improving Women’s Participation in
Philosophy in Australia 143
SUSAN DODDS AND ELIZA GODDARD
8. Women In and Out of Philosophy 164
CATRIONA MACKENZIE AND CYNTHIA TOWNLEY
9. Rethinking the Moral Signifi cance of Micro-Inequities: The Case of
Women in Philosophy 180
SAMANTHA BRENNAN
10. The Silencing of Women 197
JUSTINE   MCGILL
11. Finding Time for Philosophy 215

MICHELLE BASTIAN
vi Contents
Appendix 1: Seeing the Trends in the Data 2 31
GLENYS BISHOP , WITH HELEN BEEBEE , ELIZA GODDARD ,
AND  ADRIANE   RINI
Appendix 2: Statistical Analyses 2 53
GLENYS   BISHOP
Contributor Biographies 261
Index 265
{ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS }
This book would not have taken shape without the support and input of many
people.
It was initially motivated by a symposium held at the Australian National
University (ANU) in August 2009. This symposium was funded by the
Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) and supported by the ANU
College of Arts and Social Sciences. Participants in the symposium highlighted
the ongoing relevance of the questions posed by this volume. Of particular note
was a keynote paper by Moira Gatens, as well as papers by Kristi Giselsson,
Kyleigh Langrick, Hannah McCann, and Fiona Webster, that starkly high-
lighted some of the problems female students in philosophy can face. Although
these papers are not included in the volume for a range of reasons, they shaped
the thinking of both editors and contributors.
We would also like to thank a number of individuals and organizations for
assistance with data collection. The AAP allowed us to use their data on wom-
en’s participation in philosophy in Australia and provided some assistance from
Eliza Goddard in her capacity as executive offi cer. Adriane Rini collected data
from New Zealand to supplement the AAP’s Australasian data. Helen Beebee
collected data on the situation of women in philosophy in the U.K. on behalf
of the British Philosophical Association (BPA). Katherine Norlock was very
helpful in providing us with her own and others’ data collection on the situation
of women in philosophy in the U.S.A., much of which was done in conjunc-
tion with the American Philosophical Association (APA). Canadian data were
accessed from material published on the Canadian Philosophical Association
(CPA) website, and we are grateful to those who compiled it.
The people who read some or all of the chapters of the manuscript sug-
gested changes and revisions that have made this a better book: many thanks to
Gillian Brock, Havi Carel, David Chalmers, Joanne Faulkner, Rod Girle, Alan
Hájek, Helen Keane, Rosanne Kennedy, Jeanette Kennett, Justine Kingsbury,
Marguerite La Caze, Norva Lo, Mark Nolan, Pam Roberts, Kim Rubenstein,
Emma Rush, Inge Saris, Marian Sawer, Susanna Schellenberg, Undine Sellbach,
and Scott Wisor. Lorraine Code provided valuable advice on various matters,
as well as reading and commenting on some chapters.
Sally Haslanger offered great encouragement and practical support for this
project from the outset. We would also like to thank Peter Ohlin, our com-
missioning editor, for his invaluable enthusiasm for the project, and David
Chalmers, who encouraged us to approach Oxford University Press in the fi rst
viii Acknowledgments
place. We are grateful to the three anonymous referees from OUP who provided
helpful feedback through two rounds of review and did much to infl uence the
fi nal structure of the manuscript. Our departments, the School of Philosophy
in the Research School of Social Sciences at ANU and the Department of
Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, generously facili-
tated the time spent working on this book.
Finally, we each thank our lovely families for sharing the journey of discov-
ery with us, through what has inevitably been a personal as well as a profes-
sional project of research.
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