Helen De Cruz has started a Google Docs spreadsheet of papers that are written by women and are suitable for introductory or intermediate philosophy courses. She writes:

It is still very common that students only get readings by male authors in their introductory classes to philosophy. This contributes to the image of philosophy as a boys only discipline. It would therefore be useful to have a list with readings written by women that are suitable for philosophy courses, such as general introduction to philosophy, philosophy of science, ethics, epistemology.

via www.newappsblog.com

This should be a valuable resource for people trying to avoid a syllabus filled entirely with papers written by men. Please contribute!

To access the spreadsheet, follow the link to NewAPPS and follow her link to the spreadsheet from there.

UPDATE: After posting this yesterday, I remembered this post about a similar resources pointed out by Jenny S. Interested readers might want to consult both resources. Ambitious readers might want to combine the two datasets.

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3 responses to “A spreadsheet of papers by women for intro courses”

  1. Helen De Cruz

    Thank you for reblogging this, David.

  2. Thanks for starting the spreadsheet, Helen!

  3. Thanks for this. This is a valuable resource!

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