How Is This Paper Philosophy?

Dotson, Kristie

doi:10.31979/2151-6014(2012).030105

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“…Taking as her point of departure the infamous question, “how is this paper philosophy?,” Dotson argues that professional philosophy is characterized by a disciplinary culture that both permits and requires that this question be asked and answered, particularly if a project does not exhibit prima facie congruence with accepted norms of justification. Because these norms are informed by the perspectives traditionally represented in philosophy, they are only apparently universal and “univocally relevant” (Dotson , 8). In fact, they reflect a largely white, male, able‐bodied, straight, financially secure perspective and as such, serve to maintain philosophy's conceptual whiteness, maleness, ability, class, straightness, and so on.…”

Section: A Taxonomy Of the Foreignermentioning

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Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A Taxonomy

Erlenbusch¹

2018

Hypatia

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The question of diversity, both with regard to the demographic profile of philosophers as well as the content of philosophical inquiry, has received much attention in recent years. One figure that has gone relatively unnoticed is that of the foreigner. To the extent that philosophers have taken the foreigner as their object of inquiry, they have focused largely on challenges nonnative speakers of English face in a profession conducted predominantly in English. Yet an understanding of the foreigner in terms of the nonnative speaker does not exhaust the conceptual space of the foreigner. This article provides a more nuanced conceptual apparatus that allows for a more precise identification and discussion of other ways in which one can be a foreigner in philosophy. I develop a taxonomy of different conceptions of the foreigner, namely the linguistic, material, cultural, and epistemic foreigner; I discuss the different and specific challenges they face; and I show how foreigners enrich philosophical practice.

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Section: A Taxonomy Of the Foreignermentioning

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Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A Taxonomy

Erlenbusch¹

2018

Hypatia

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“…To date this literature does not break down the category "women" into salient intersecting subcategories that are also underrepresented, such as race, sexual orientation, transgender identity, or disability. For example, it is estimated that there are fewer than 30 black women with philosophy Ph.D.s who are working in philosophy departments in North America (Dotson 2012;Gines 2011). Severe underrepresentation can lead to fears that one's performance will be taken to represent the philosophical abilities of anyone in that category (Magloire 2014 (Buckwalter and Stich op.cit.…”

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Experimental Philosophy and the Underrepresentation of Women

Figdor¹,

Drabek²

2016

A Companion to Experimental Philosophy

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“…These factors are not unique to philosophy and negatively influence climates in other disciplines that have poor gender balance and an underrepresentation of people of color (Beattie, Cohen, & McGuire 2013;MossRacusin, Dovidio, Brescoll, Graham, & Handelsman 2013). Dotson (2012) and Ruíz (2014) have also identified several methodological and cultural norms within philosophy that function to reify certain modes of thought as the domain of philosophy proper while excluding from the discipline alternative ways of engaging philosophically with the world. Dotson critiques what she calls academic philosophy's "culture of justification," namely, its preoccupation with legitimation narratives that requires the constant defense of those projects and practices that, while philosophical in nature, are not widely recognized as such within the discipline (2012: 5).…”

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Implicit Bias and the Idealized Rational Self

Berenstain¹

2018

Ergo, an Open Access Journal of Philosophy

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The underrepresentation of women, people of color, and especially women of colorand the corresponding overrepresentation of white men-is more pronounced in philosophy than in many of the sciences. I suggest that part of the explanation for this lies in the role played by the idealized rational self, a concept that is relatively influential in philosophy but rarely employed in the sciences. The idealized rational self models the mind as consistent, unified, rationally transcendent, and introspectively transparent. I hypothesize that acceptance of the idealized rational self leads philosophers to underestimate the influence of implicit bias on their own judgments and prevents them from enacting the reforms necessary to minimize the effects of implicit bias on institutional decision-making procedures. I consider recent experiments in social psychology that suggest that an increased sense of one's own objectivity leads to greater reliance on bias in hiring scenarios, and I hypothesize how these results might be applied to philosophers' evaluative judgments. I discuss ways that the idealized rational self is susceptible to broader critiques of ideal theory, and I consider some of the ways that the picture functions as a tool of active ignorance and color-evasive racism.

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How Is This Paper Philosophy?

Cited by 95 publications

References 31 publications

Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A Taxonomy

Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A Taxonomy

Experimental Philosophy and the Underrepresentation of Women

Implicit Bias and the Idealized Rational Self

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