[Lgpolicy] VIDEO: Marsili, Rehren & Baumgartner on "Linguistic Inequity in Academic Philosophy"

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 Dear all

Accessible here, for those who could not take part live, is the video
recording of today’s Linguistic Justice Society Webinar:

https://youtu.be/Jf0TMEEgm9s?si=YA7-pOp1aK_wgVp_

Please feel free to distribute as you see fit.

Yours
The LJS Webinar Convenors

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From: çağla çimendereli <caglacimendereli at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 14:17
Subject: Last Reminder: “Linguistic Inequity in Academic Philosophy: A Big
Data Analysis of Publication Trends (1975–2021)” LJS Webinar
To: <LINGUISTICJUSTICESOCIETY at ls.kuleuven.be>


Dear all,

This is the last reminder for the next webinar of the series of webinars of
the Linguistic Justice Society (LJS):

*Tuesday 30 January 2024, 5am (EST), 11am (CET), 9pm (AEDT)*
Lucien Baumgartner (Zurich), Neri Marsili (UNED) & Paul Rehren (Utrecht),
“Linguistic Inequity in Academic Philosophy: A Big Data Analysis of
Publication Trends (1975–2021)”

*Abstract:* There is a growing worry that authors from Non English-Speaking
(NES) countries face biases or unfair disadvantages in academic philosophy
publishing. In our talk, we use a big data approach to investigate this
worry. We collected meta-data from over 100,000 philosophy articles,
published in 223 English-language journals between 1975 to 2021. We used
two proxies to infer the native language of the author: the author’s
institutional address(es) and the location of the university that granted
the author’s PhD. We found that while NES authors are slightly
underrepresented in philosophy journals overall, this disparity becomes
more pronounced when focusing on top-tier journals, where NES philosophers
are significantly less represented than their native counterparts. We
propose and investigate potential explanations for this finding, including:
active discrimination; publishing cultures and institutional incentives;
and differences in productivity levels, language quality, and areas of
interest. To conclude, we discuss the potential implications of our results
for the discipline and the publishing industry.


*Short Bios:*
Lucien Baumgartner is a PhD student at the University of Zurich. He works
primarily in experimental and theoretical Philosophy of language. His
research focuses on normative expressions in natural language, such as
thick concepts, dual character concepts, and normative generics. He also
works on integrating computational corpus analysis into experimental
philosophy.

Neri Marsili is a "Talent Attraction" Research Fellow at UNED, in Madrid,
where he is currently leading a 5-year interdisciplinary project on online
disinformation. His primary areas of research include philosophy of
language, epistemology, aesthetics, and experimental philosophy. His work
has been published in journals such as Cognition, The Journal of
Philosophy, Philosophical Quarterly, Mind & Language, The Journal of
Pragmatics, Philosophical Studies, Synthese, and Analysis

Paul Rehren is a PhD student in philosophy at Utrecht University. I work on
various topics at the intersection of the behavioral sciences and
philosophy, including moral judgment and reasoning, free will, punishment
and moral progress. I'm also really interested in methodology (both in
philosophy and elsewhere), and in the sociology of philosophy.

Zoom link for the talk: https://syracuseuniversity.zoom.us/j/94923504829

To catch up on previous talks in the series, please visit the LJS YouTube
channel: http://youtube.com/@linguisticjusticesociety

For more details about, and to subscribe to, the LJS, please visit:
https://hiw.kuleuven.be/ripple/research/linguisticjusticesociety

Yours,

The LJS Webinar convenors: Yael Peled (Max Planck Institute for the Study
of Religious and Ethnic Diversity), Çağla Çimendereli (Syracuse
University), Sergi Morales-Gálvez (Universitat de València) and Filippo
Contesi (Universitat de Barcelona)

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