The Mentoring Workshop

For Early Career Women* Faculty in Philosophy

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We are delighted to announce that the Seventh Biennial Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Women* in Philosophy will be held June 4-6, 2025, at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. 

The Mentoring Workshop began as an initiative of the Women in Philosophy Task Force, an umbrella group aimed at coordinating initiatives and intensifying efforts to advance the careers of women in Philosophy.  Its inaugural workshop in 2011 followed a model designed by women in the American Economics Association.  There is mounting evidence that mentoring is important for success in academia. The Mentoring Workshop aims to build long-term mentoring relationships between eminent senior and junior scholars in the discipline of Philosophy.

*While we retain the historic title for this workshop, the directors would like to emphasize that the goal of this workshop is to provide mentorship to philosophers who might have had difficulty finding it in virtue of their gender.  Given the demographics of the field, this includes philosophers from one or more of the following groups: women, nonbinary people, and trans* people.

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Apply for the 2025 Mentoring Workshop!

This workshop seeks to address the ongoing underrepresentation of women, non-binary people, and trans* people in professional philosophy by building long-term mentoring relationships among senior and junior colleagues from these groups.  Any woman, nonbinary person, or trans* person entering or holding a faculty (pre-tenure or contract) or postdoc position in Philosophy at a college or university is eligible to apply.  Because the workshop is aimed specifically at those who are navigating academic life after their PhD, we require that applicants have successfully defended by the date of their application.  Members of groups underrepresented in Philosophy are especially encouraged to apply.

Your application should include a CV and an abstract of your proposed workshop paper.  Successful applicants will be assigned a networking group consisting of a mentor and four fellow mentees working in similar fields.  Given that workshop groups are intended to function as long-term sources of mentoring and networking support, it is recommended that your paper fall squarely within the area of specialization in which you intend your future work to focus. The deadline to apply is December 15, 2024.

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Call for Mentors

We would like to invite senior scholars interested in serving as mentors for the Mentoring Workshop to identify themselves by signing up using the button below.

Mentors will provide written feedback on the workshop papers of each of the four mentees in their networking group, and will participate in discussions and panels at the workshop.  In the long term, mentors will offer to monitor the progress of mentees’ careers and offer advice about professional development.   

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Support Us

The Marc Sanders Foundation is pledging a dollar-for-dollar match (up to $12000) for The Mentoring Workshop. Contribute today!

To make a gift contribution in support of The Mentoring Workshop, please use the form below, and you will be taken to our donation platform on Paypal. If you prefer to send a physical payment, please follow the instructions found on our Contribute page, noting The Mentoring Workshop in your payment memo.

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The Mentoring Workshop began as a project of the Women in Philosophy Task Force. It is currently funded by the Marc Sanders Foundation and has been funded in the past by grants from the American Philosophical Association and by the departments that have hosted each of the workshops–including the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, the Department of Philosophy at Boston University, the Department of Philosophy at University of Utah, the Department of Philosophy at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kansas.