Inclusive Teaching

Make your teaching more inclusive

A particularly pressing issue faced by women and other under-represented groups in philosophy is the exclusion of their works from syllabi. It is no news that such exclusion affects both students and academics. To mitigate this, the Women’s Caucus has brought together a variety of resources ranging from online directories to resources in inclusive pedagogy with the aim of encouraging the inclusion of the works of under-represented groups in philosophy of science.

We are always looking for more resources to add to this page. If you have any that you would like to see added here, please contact us.

Helpful resources

Minorities and Philosophy: An excellent and wide variety of resources.
UPDirectory: The UPDirectory publicizes information about philosophers who are members of traditionally under-represented 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 under-represented groups within the discipline. You can also add yourself to the directory.
The Diversity Reading List: The Diversity Reading List is a new online resource for teaching philosophy that aims to combat under-representation of particular groups and encourage an increase in the demographic diversity of the subject. This project involves collecting high quality texts in philosophy, written by authors from under-represented groups and promotes the use of their work in teaching. The website encourages and enables teachers and lecturers to easily find and use these texts in their syllabi and reading lists.

Other resources

Minorities in Philosophy (MAP)
Forum: Pluralism? Reflections on Women in the History of Philosophy of Science (Special HOPOS issue)
Three ways of diversifying a philosophy syllabus
APA blog posts related to diversity and inclusion
Indigenous research methods (blogpost by Helen Kara)

Syllabi Collection

Diversity and Inclusiveness Syllabus Collection from the APA (by subfield)
Ethics Education Library: Collection of syllabi and other resources for scholars and university administrators interested in developing ethics training and instruction programs for undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students. Includes ethics syllabi from a range of disciplines, with special focus on ethics in engineering and science.
Project Vox Teaching Resource: Aims to remedy a major impediment to including early modern women in the philosophical canon, namely the lack of readily available teaching resources for including women’s philosophical works in undergraduate or graduate courses (includes resources for teaching early modern science).
APA Online: Syllabi for philosophy courses with a substantial focus on diversity issues.
SWIP: Sample course syllabi for feminist philosophy (through SWIP)

Syllabi for specific courses

Philosophy of Mind (all women syllabus): Zoe Drayson (UC Davis) created this syllabus largely to show that it can be done, and to create a resource for other philosophers looking to add female authors to their syllabi.
Syllabus for Native American Philosophy
Philosophy of anti-slavery by Nathaniel Coleman (Aimed at undergraduates)

Reading suggestions on a variety of topics

The Diversity Reading List (see ‘especially helpful resources’ above)
Diversifying Syllabi from the Georgetown‘s Women in Philosophy Climate Coalition (GWPCC): Suggestions for readings on various topics with text summaries and tips for teaching. 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 Summer Reading Group at Georgetown University.
Core readings for undergraduate curricula in philosophy by women authors
Some readings by women authors used in introduction to philosophy classes: A compilation by Prof. Tim O'Keefe of "all of the readings by female authors used in the sections of Introduction to Philosophy taught by graduate students (and the departmental chair George Rainbolt) in the academic year 2012-13 plus in summer 2013 at Georgia State University" where course readings were designed to include at least 20% or more by women philosophers.
Women in Early(ish) 20th Century Analytic Philosophy (Paul Franco): Links to readings; sorted by area
African Philosophy: An Anthology, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (Ed): Includes a section on knowledge and science.

Reading suggestions for specific topics

Work by women on personal identity
SWIP Suggested Readings on the Construction of Whiteness/Racial Identity
An Inclusive Bibliography on Race, Gender, and Related Topics: Meena Krishnamurthy (May 2017): “One of the central criticisms of the recent piece in Hypatia by Rebecca Tuvel, “In Defense of Transracialism,” is that it failed to discuss much of the relevant literature by trans* and POC scholars. In the hopes of moving future work in the right direction, this is a collection of relevant resources that emphasizes work by POC, trans* people, and members of other under-represented groups.” (May 2017)
Elizabeth Anderson’s resource page for teaching and study for race, gender, and affirmative action (July 2008): This is an annotated bibliography of resources on race, gender, and affirmative action intended for the use of faculty who are designing courses concerning race, gender, and affirmative action, and for students and browsers interested in a guide to the literature.
Indigenising Philosophy – Resources: Compiled by the MAP Chapter at the University of Melbourne.

Specialised Anthologies and Textbooks

Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction Paperback, Cartwright, N. and Montuschi, E. (eds.): All-women introduction to philosophy of social science
An Unconventional History of Western Philosophy: Conversations Between Men and Women Philosophers, Karen J. Warren (editor), 2009: Women in the History of Philosophy
Women Philosophers of the Early Modern Period, Margaret Atherton (editor), 1994
Philosophy by Women of Color: Women of Color and Philosophy: A Critical Reader, Naomi Zack (editor), 2000.
African Philosophy: An Anthology, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (editor), 1998: Africana philosophy
A Companion to African Philosophy, Kwasi Wiredu (editor), 2006.
Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy, James Montmarquet and William Hardy (editors), 1999: African-American philosophy
Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy, Philip J. Ivanhoe and Bryan W. Van Norden (editors), 2005: Classical Chinese philosophy 
American Indian Thought: Philosophical Essays, Anne Waters (editor), 2003: American Indian philosophy 
Americans with Disabilities, Leslie Francis and Anita Silvers (editors), 2000: Disability philosophy
Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science, David Ludwig, Inkeri Koskinen, Zinhle Mncube and Luana Poliseli (Eds), 2021: Non-Western Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science

Inclusive Pedagogy Resources

Anderson, Luvell & Erlenbusch, Verena (2017). Modeling Inclusive Pedagogy: Five Approaches. Journal of Social Philosophy 48 (1):6-19.
Jacquart, Melissa ; Scott, Rebecca ; Hermberg, Kevin & Bloch-Schulman, Stephen (2019). Diversity Is Not Enough: The Importance of Inclusive Pedagogy. Teaching Philosophy 42 (2):107-139.
Inclusive Pedagogy: Morgan Thompson’s Inclusive Pedagogy Resource Site
Resources for making introductory philosophy of science courses more inclusive: Morgan Thompson’s resources for making introductory philosophy of science courses more inclusive
Losing the race? Philosophy of Race in UK Philosophy Departments, Chauhan et al, 2022: A survey of philosophy of race teaching in UK philosophy departments, and an argument for why philosophy of race should be taught as part of a philosophy degree

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to our Diversity Initiative Co-Coordinators Dana Tulodziecki and Karoliina Pulkkinen for helping compile this list of resources.