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DIVERSIFYING SYLLABI: ABOUT US
People
The group is sponsored by the Graduate Student Coalition for Gender Diversity in Philosophy (formerly the Climate Coalition) and the Georgetown chapter of Minorities in Philosophy. Membership is open to all graduate students in the Georgetown Philosophy Department. Diversifying Syllabi has been around since the summer of 2014.
The 2018 Coordinators are Ashli Godfrey, Melayna Schiff, Karen Rice, and Madeline Eller.
Why Diversifying Syllabi?
Our aims are:
This website fulfills our third goal.
People
The group is sponsored by the Graduate Student Coalition for Gender Diversity in Philosophy (formerly the Climate Coalition) and the Georgetown chapter of Minorities in Philosophy. Membership is open to all graduate students in the Georgetown Philosophy Department. Diversifying Syllabi has been around since the summer of 2014.
The 2018 Coordinators are Ashli Godfrey, Melayna Schiff, Karen Rice, and Madeline Eller.
Why Diversifying Syllabi?
- Given that increasing diversity in the profession is essential to the continuing relevance and vibrancy of Philosophy;
- and given that one of the apparent barriers to diversity is the lack of diverse philosophers included in Introductory courses;
- and given that the lack of diverse philosophers in most Intro syllabi is likely caused by lack of familiarity with this work rather than lack of good will;
- We organize a summer reading group of work by diverse philosophers. We read selections from various authors appropriate (in terms of topic, level of difficulty, and length) for Intro level courses.
Our aims are:
- to increase familiarity with texts by diverse philosophers and to think about their potential pedagogical uses so they can easily be incorporated into our teaching;
- to do this in a supportive, informal and relaxed setting;
- to create an online resource for the profession in the form of an annotated bibliography.
This website fulfills our third goal.