A quick count revealed about equal numbers of men and women in the audience — an unusual figure for an event in philosophy, where women make up less than 20 percent of full-time faculty.

and nearly 21 percent of professors in philosophy are women. Those numbers are even lower for women of color and queer and trans women. Many women who pursue advanced study in philosophy speak of a ...

BINGHAMTON, NY - Women are underrepresented in philosophy journals, even when compared to their already low rate of representation among faculty, according to new research from Binghamton ...

The University of Colorado at Boulder on Friday announced that it was changing the leadership of its philosophy department and requiring mandatory training for all faculty in an effort to change a ...

Plato and Socrates are household names, but what about Diotima of Mantinea? Only a handful of professional philosophers know of her yet she was the very person reputed to have taught one of the ...

Two undergrads are determined to break the philosophical glass ceiling. In response to an underrepresentation of women in the University’s philosophy department, third-year philosophy majors Julie Huh ...

“I spend a lot of time being the only woman and the only black person,” says Jacqueline R. Scott, an associate professor of philosophy at Loyola University Chicago. “Every once in a while it ...