Readings of the Academic Climate and

Philosophy Reading Group at NYU

Spring 2020

Organizers: Annette Martín and Ariel Melamedoff

• Holroyd and Saul (2019). "Implicit Bias Research and Reform Efforts in Philosophy: A Defence." 
• Bassler (2019), "But You Don’t Look Sick': A Survey of Scholars with Chronic, Invisible Illnesses and their Advice on How to Live and Work in Academia"

Fall 2019

Organizers: Annette Martín and Ariel Melamedoff

• Valian (1995), "Solving a Work Problem."
• DiAngelo (2017): "We Are All for Diversity, But...' How Faculty Hiring Committees Reproduce Whiteness and Practical Suggestions for How They Can Change"
• Dowell and Sobel (2019): Parts one and two of A Two-Part Series On Sexual Harassment in Philosophy.

Spring 2017

Organizer: Annette Martín

• Haslanger (1993). “On Being Objective and Being Objectified.”
• Holroyd (2015). “Implicit Bias, Awareness, and Imperfect Cognitions.”
• Madva (2016). “A Plea for Anti-Anti-Individualism: How Oversimple Psychology Misleads Social Policy.”   (Related: comments by Saray Ayala-Lopez, Sally Haslanger, and Jennifer Saul, as well as Madva’s response.)

Spring 2016

Organizer: Annette Martín

• Dobbs (2015). “Pre-College Causes of Women’s Underrepresentation in Philosophy”
• Dovidio et al. (2016). “Included But Invisible? Subtle Bias, Common Identity, and the Darker Side of ‘We’”

• (Related: https://feministphilosophers.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/is-diversity-just-too-hard-a-hypothesis/)

• Leslie (2014). “Carving Up the Social World with Generics”

Fall 2015

Organizer: Annette Martín

• Hutchison (2013). “Sages and Cranks: The Difficulty of Identifying First-Rate Philosophers”  
• Gendler (2011). “On the Epistemic Costs of Implicit Bias”
• Ayala and Vasilyeva (2015). “Explaining Injustice in Speech: Individualistic vs. Structural Explanation”

• (Related: Commentary and replies)

Spring 2015

Organizers: Arden Koehler and Annette Martín

• Saul (2013). “Implicit Bias, Stereotype Threat, and Women in Philosophy” in Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change? Ed. Jenkins and Hutchinson 2013.
• Haslanger (2008). “Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not By Reason (Alone)”
• Anderson (2012). “Epistemic Justice as a Virtue of Social Institutions”
• Kelly et al. (2010). “Getting Rid of Racism: Assessing Three Proposals in Light of Psychological Evidence”
• Lee and Schun (2001). “Social Biases and Solutions for Procedural Objectivity”
• Vaccaro (2012). "Campus Microclimates for LGBT Faculty, Staff, and Students: An Exploration of the Intersections of Social Identity and Campus Roles"
• Saul (2014). “Stop Thinking So Much About ‘Sexual Harassment’”