{"id":17113,"date":"2016-06-28T09:36:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:36:34","slug":"the-lack-of-diversity-in-philosophy-is-blocking-its-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17113","title":{"rendered":"the lack of diversity in philosophy is blocking its progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on vacation this week and most of next, so I&#8217;m not blogging. However, a piece of mine has just appeared in Aeon, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/ideas\/the-lack-of-diversity-in-philosophy-is-blocking-its-progress\">The lack of diversity in philosophy is blocking its progress<\/a>.&#8221; It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Philosophy is a remarkably un-diverse discipline. Compared with other scholars who read, interpret and assign texts, philosophers in the United States typically choose a much higher percentage of their sources (often, 100 per cent) from Europe and countries settled by Europeans. Philosophy teachers, too, look homogeneous: 86 per cent of new PhD researchers in philosophy are white, and 72 per cent are male. In the whole country, only about <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1527-2001.2011.01172.x\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">30 African-American<\/a> women work as philosophy professors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m on vacation this week and most of next, so I&#8217;m not blogging. However, a piece of mine has just appeared in Aeon, entitled &#8220;The lack of diversity in philosophy is blocking its progress.&#8221; It begins: Philosophy is a remarkably un-diverse discipline. Compared with other scholars who read, interpret and assign texts, philosophers in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-philosophy","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17117,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions\/17117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}