Gender Composition of Scholarly Publications by Field

This is a wonderful resource. Looking up philosophy on the linked page, I found that women were only 9.4% of authors of scholarly publications in philosophy. But then I realised that the date range was 1665-2011. Surely the earlier centuries explained that low percentage. So I clicked on 1990-2011, expecting much higher. And, well it was higher. By 3%. Yup. We’re still only at 12%. (UDPATE: Sorry, did I see 3% increase? It’s only 2.6.)

BGND Philosophy of Religion Conference 2013

I wanted to draw attention to the Baylor-Georgetown-Notre Dame Philosophy of Religion Conference, this year, taking place October 3-5 at Notre Dame. It’s got a fabulous line-up and lots of women on the program.

Here’s the conference program:

Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 3

• 2:30 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.: Welcome

• 2:40 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Pamela Anderson (Oxford) – “Making Sense of Things: Why Metaphysics Matters to Analytic Theology”
  • Commentator: Christina Van Dyke (Calvin)

• 4:10 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.: Jon Kvanvig (Baylor) – “Affective Faith and Its Cognitive Dimension”
  • Commentator: Daniel Howard-Snyder (Western Washington)
• Dinner

Friday, Oct. 4

• Breakfast (starting at 8:30 a.m. outside the conference room)

• 9:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.: Patricia McShane (Georgetown) “Faith and Moral Testimony”
  • Commentator: Laura Buchak (Berkeley)

• 10:30 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.: Pat Kain (Purdue) – “God, Good, and Kant”
  • Commentator: Kyla Ebels-Duggan (Northwestern)

• 11:50 – 1:20 p.m.: Lunch

• 1:20 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.: Jeff Speaks (Notre Dame) – “The Greatest Possible Being”
  • Commentator: Sameer Yadav (Indiana Wesleyan)
• Free time* and Dinner

Saturday, Oct. 5

• Breakfast (starting at 9:30 a.m. outside the conference room)

• 10:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m.: Roger White (MIT) – “Teleological Explanations and Arguments”
  • Commentator: Elizabeth Miller (Harvard)

• 11:30 a.m. – 12:50 a.m.: Shieva Kleinschmidt (USC) – “Reasoning without the Principle of Sufficient Reason”
  • Commentator: Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame)
• 12:50 a.m. – 2:20 p.m.: Lunch
• 2:20 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.: Charity Anderson (Oxford) – “Pragmatic Encroachment, Stakes, and Religious Knowledge
  • Commentator: Kathryn Pogin (Notre Dame)

• ​3:50 p.m. – 5:10 p.m.: Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) – “Religious Belief and the Epistemology of Testimony”
  • Commentator: Mike Bergmann (Purdue)
• Free time and Dinner

*All conference participants are welcome and encouraged to attend Susanna Schellenberg‘s colloquium on Fri., Oct 4 from 3:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in 220 Malloy Hall.