The New York Times had a short article on “women in philosophy”:http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/a-dearth-of-women-philosophers/. I’ve heard a lot of speculation about why this might be so. Indeed, I’ve participated in such speculation. But a lot of that speculation isn’t linked up to empirical facts, such as the facts in the “Australasian Association of Philosophy’s studies on women in philosophy in Australia”:http://aap.org.au/women/reports/index.html. Here are two key graphs.

The AAP’s study (authored by Eliza Goddard) included four reports:

• Executive Summary
• Report A: Staffing by Gender in Philosophy Programs in Australian Universities
• Report B: Appointments by Gender in Philosophy Programs in Australian Universities
• Report C: Students by Gender in Philosophy Programs in Australian Universities

I’d really like it if a similar study was run in America, though I suspect that wouldn’t be cheap.

Here are two links to Scottish Philosophy:

• Arché has a Twitter feed.
• The Northern Institute of Philosophy has a blog.

I’ve in the past quoted a lot of citation counts from Google Scholar. Language Log suggests that data is “too muddled to be relied on”:http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1770.

There will be a cross-disciplinary “Online Compass conference”:http://compassconference.wordpress.com/ happening shortly. The conference begins October 19, and you can register for free “here”:http://www.blackwellpublishingsurvey.com/survey/149278/29a8/.

We’ve published a lot of new articles in Philosophy Compass recently. These include:

• Buck Passing Accounts of Value by Jussi Suikkanen.
• Cartesian Sensations by Raffaella De Rosa.
• God and the Natural World in the Seventeenth Century: Space, Time, and Causality by Geoffrey Gorham.

And we’ve also published some free to download teaching and learning guide. These include:

• Teaching & Learning Guide for: Frege on Definitions by Sanford Shieh.
• Teaching and Learning Guide for: Recent Work on Propositions by Peter Hanks.