Diversity in Philosophy: Editors’ Introduction

For the past twenty years the lack of diversity in professional philosophy has come under increasing scrutiny. Reports that demonstrate the lack of women’s and BAME representation in the field, alongside high-profile sexual harassment scandals involving prominent philosophers and articles in mainstream news outlets that have drawn attention to the hostile climate of professional philosophy, have fuelled growing public and academic attention to the discipline’s ‘chilly climate’. Perhaps due in part to concurrent high-profile feminist resistance surrounding sexist professional climates, the question of why women in particular are so underrepresented in the discipline has attracted the majority of public and academic scrutiny.