Last month, I finished cross-referencing Thomas Bechtle and Mary Riley’s Dissertations in Philosophy Accepted at American Universities, 1861-1975 (New York: Garland, 1978) against other sources of philosophy dissertations, including Dissertation Abstracts International, The Pragmatism Cybrary, and various library catalogs.
As described in the preface, Bechtle and Riley compiled a preliminary list from standard sources, including Dissertation Abstracts International [...]
Archive: 'Data'
The hundred years problem
15Apr08Increasingly, I think we’re saddled with what I’m calling the “hundred years” problem. By that, I mean that from at least 2000 forward, it’s fairly easy to compile degree, appointment, and publication information, since (nearly) all of it is published on the web (and sometimes even available in RSS, XML, or flat data formats). Some [...]
External readers
26Mar08While processing dissertation title pages, I’m finding a number of signatures that don’t belong to any of the faculty members listed for the department. In some cases, these are faculty from other departments (e.g., linguistics, Greek) at the same institution, but in many cases, I suspect these are external reviewers from other programs. Unless these [...]
Faculty data entered
21Jan08We’ve just finished our last import of faculty appointments into the database. The grand total looks like 1,715 philosophers, give or take a few duplicate entries and unresolved names. These professors held over 3,000 appointments, so even at this very abstract level, you can already get a sense of how closely our 20 current schools [...]
Data on women in philosophy
20Sep07Sally Haslanger’s “Changing the Ideology and Culture of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)” has been circulating around several blogs and listservs lately. The article, which is slated to come out in Hypatia next year, reviews the situation for women in current academic philosophy. Haslanger includes statistics on the top 20 departments as well as leading [...]
Accounting for our research trip
30Aug07It’s taken us a while to organize the data we collected this past month, but here are some approximate figures on what we’ve collected.
Institution
Dissertations
Faculty Records
University of Chicago
375
Complete
Cornell University
267*
Complete
CUNY Graduate Center
176
Complete
Harvard
(pending)
Complete
Johns Hopkins University
(pending)
Complete
University of Michigan
317
Complete
Northwestern University
299
Complete
Notre Dame University
265
Complete
University of Pennsylvania
(pending)
Complete
University of Pittsburgh
205*
Complete
Rutgers University
107
Complete
Syracuse University
138
Complete
University of Toronto
589
Complete
University of Wisconsin-Madison
281
Complete
Yale University
(pending)
Complete
TOTAL
3,019
14
* indicates several missing dissertations to be obtained
As [...]
