Implicit Bias and Gender (and Other Sorts of) Diversity in Philosophy and the Academy in the Context of the Corporatized University

Abstract

Equal employment opportunity strategies required by Title VII, designed to address explicit or overt discrimination on the basis of sex, have not significantly increased the numbers of women faculty or graduate students in philosophy. Philosophers have recently begun exploring the possible implications—both practical and theoretical—of unconscious or implicit bias, for the lack of gender diversity in philosophy.