Sponsors
University of Leeds – 2015: Initial development grant, and 2017: Continued development grant School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science Strategic Funding Scheme
American Society for Aesthetics – 2015, Curriculum Diversification Grant
British Philosophical Association – 2015-18, Project Development Funding
Society for Applied Philosophy – 2015, Grant to expand the applied philosophy section of the list
University of Edinburgh – 2015-16, Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme to expand the metaphysics, mind and science sections of the list.
EIDYN, Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity – 2016-19, Continuous Development Funding
University of Sheffield – 2017, Petrie Watson Grant to expand the List
British Society of Aesthetics – 2017, BSA Small Grant to improve the DRL website accessibility and usability
The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities – 2018, Student Led Forum grant for a joint MAP-DRL workshop and edit-a-thon
American Philosophical Association – 2019, Fund for Diversity and Inclusiveness to add all public contributions to the List
Arts and Humanities Research Council – 2020-22, PGR Placement and Knowledge Exchange Grant to conduct research on Diversifying and Widening Participation in Philosophy
The Future of Work and Income Research Network – 2021, funding to develop the Future of Work Reading Group Blueprint
University of St Andrews – 2021, funding to develop the Sex, what is it good for? Reading Group Blueprint, granted by The School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies
University of Manchester – 2022, School of Social Sciences Small Research Grant to work on developing larger grant projects
British Society of Aesthetics – 2022, BSA Small Grant to develop three Reading Group Blueprints in the area of aesthetics
Supporters
Daily Nous – a blog which provides information and news for and about the philosophy profession.
Discrimination and Disadvantage – a blog which offers a space for philosophical reflection on various kinds of disadvantage as well as discussion of such disadvantage within the philosophical community.
Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group and Blog – a group working to raise awareness of the many disputes and debacles that currently surround the status of women and minorities in academic philosophy, and to provide support for female faculty and postgraduates.
Feminist History of Philosophy – a forum for the exchange of ideas, conference calls for papers, information on publications, and a community of academic philosophers who do history of philosophy from a feminist perspective.
Feminist Philosophers – a blog aiming to help feminist philosophers keep up with philosophically relevant facts and examples.
Indigenous Philosophy Group – a group aiming to support and promote diverse indigenous philosophical scholarship in education.
Minorities And Philosophy and Minorities And Philosophy UK – a worldwide network of students based in English-speaking philosophy departments that aims to facilitate the participation of members from underrepresented groups in academic philosophy.
Related Projects
APA Diversity and Inclusiveness Syllabus Collection – a collection of complete syllabi which use diverse resources or focus on diversity issues.
Best Practices for the Inclusive Philosophy Classroom – an easily accessible launching pad for teachers who want to make their philosophy classrooms more inclusive.
Diversifying Syllabi – a compilation of philosophical texts on a variety of topics, written by diverse practitioners, and appropriate for undergraduate courses. tried and tested by the “Diversifying Syllabi 101” summer reading group at Georgetown University.
Heterodox Academy – A politically diverse group of social scientists and other scholars who want to improve their academic disciplines, and focus on the problems related to the loss or lack of “viewpoint diversity.”
Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists – A research and teaching centre at the University of Paderborn, focusing on studying and exploring the history of women philosophers and scientists.
(In Parenthesis) – a teaching, research, and curriculum design project exploring the contribution of a remarkable group of philosophers who met as young women at Oxford University during World War II.
Philosophising in… – an interview series devoted to exploring the philosophical richness of lesser-studied languages from across the world, aiming to expand the horizons of contemporary philosophy and explore how concepts translate across languages.
Project Myopia – An online resource devoted to diversifying university curricula, offering crowdsourced semi-academic personal essays on literary, visual, musical, and other materials useful in teaching.
Project VOX – a project seeking to recover the lost voices of women who have been ignored in standard narratives of the history of modern philosophy, with an aim to change those narratives, thereby changing what students around the world learn about philosophy’s history.
The UP Directory – The UPDirectory publicizes information about philosophers who are members of traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy. The purpose of the directory is to provide an easy-to-use resource for anyone who wants to learn more about the work of philosophers who belong to underrepresented groups within the discipline.
The Deviant Philosopher – A database of straightforward, easy-to-use resources for philosophy instructors to make it easy to incorporate philosophy from outside the mainstream.
The Decolonisation Group – An interdisciplinary group based in Utrecht, offering a variety of workshops, activities, teaching resources and a podcast, promoting the intensive study of decolonisation.
The Philosophy Exception – A catalogue of works on philosophy’s problems with equity, diversity, and inclusion, divided into four categories: Calls to Action; Documentation; Theorizing the Philosophy Exception; Interventions.