More than any other Humanities discipline, philosophy has an underrepresentation problem.

Drawing on the concept of “structural injustice,” this book analyzes underrepresentation as a product of unjust social structures. Within the teaching of philosophy, it explores structural exclusion in the classroom, conversations, and curricula; within philosophical research it investigates power hierarchies and linguistic injustices; as well as how the dominant research methods and practices result from and reinforce unjust structures; and within the philosophy profession it interrogates hiring procedures, evaluative practices, the job market, sexual harassment, and job precarity.

Revealing how these interconnected structures reproduce inequality in academic philosophy, Structural Injustice in Philosophy also advances concrete solutions for change. Its commitment to addressing structural injustice is reflected in its list of contributors, who represent a range of career stages, ages, nationalities, genders, races, levels of ability, and institutional affiliations. In this way, the collection seeks not only to diagnose the problem but also to help transform the discipline.

This project is an initiative of the Minorities and Philosophy organization.

Maeve McKeown is Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the interdisciplinary faculty Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen, Germany. Previously she was a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and a postdoc at Oxford University and the Goethe University Frankfurt. She is the author of With Power Comes Responsibility: The Politics of Structural Injustice (Bloomsbury, 2024) and co-editor of What is Structural Injustice? (2024).

Seunghyun Song is Assistant Professor at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Before coming to Tilburg, she held a FWO junior postdoc mandate at KU Leuven. Her main area of expertise is in linguistic justice and intergenerational justice. She publishes on issues of reparative justice, historical injustice, and structural injustice approach, and is also invested in the field of social epistemology, especially on epistemic injustice and reparation.