Networks in philosophy: Social networks and employment in academic philosophy

In recent years, the “science of science” has combined computational methods with novel data sources to understand dynamics research communities. Many questions investigated by science are also relevant academic philosophy. To what extent can discipline be divided into subfields different and topics? How prestige credit distributed across discipline? And how do these factors interact other factors, such as gender, shape job market outcomes? Using for anglophone philosophy, this paper finds, first, evidence that is consistent analytic-continental divide but other, more complex ways organizing philosophy distinct intellectual traditions; second, a clear hierarchy, dividing Ph.D. programs two categories; and, third, prestige, country have notable effects on outcomes Ph.Ds.