Philosophical Gourmet Report 2002-2004
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS

 
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  Note: in some cases, the unit to apply to would be the History and Philosophy of Science unit at the University, rather than the Philosophy Department proper.

PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Group 1 (1) (mean of 5.0)

University of Pittsburgh (5.0)

Group 2 (2-4) (mean of 4.5)

Columbia University (4.5)
London School of Economics (4.5)
University of California, Irvine (4.5)

Group 3 (5-12) (mean of 4.0)

Carnegie-Mellon University (4.0)
Oxford University (4.0)
Princeton University (4.0)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4.0)
University of California, San Diego (4.0)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4.0)
University of Notre Dame (4.0)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (4.0)

Group 4 (13-30) (mean of 3.5)

Australian National University (4.0)
Cornell University (3.5)
Duke University (3.5)
Indiana University, Bloomington (3.5)
King's College, London (3.5)
New York University (4.0)
Stanford University (4.0)
University of Arizona (3.5)
University of British Columbia (3.5)
University of California, Davis (4.0)
University of Illinois, Chicago (3.5)
University of Maryland, College Park (4.0)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (3.5)
University of South Carolina (3.5)
University of Texas, Austin (3.5)
University of Toronto (3.5)
University of Washington, Seattle (3.5)
University of Western Ontario (3.5)

Group 5 (31-43) (mean of 3.0)

Cambridge University (3.0)
City University of New York Graduate Center (3.0)
Johns Hopkins University (3.0)
Massachussetts Institute of Technology (3.0)
Ohio State University (3.0)
University of Bristol (3.0)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.25)
University of Pennsylvania (3.0)
University of Queensland (3.0)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (3.0)
University of Sydney (3.0)
University of Waterloo (3.0)

Also Notable (median of 3.0): Arizona State University; Boston University; University of Alberta ; University of California, Berkeley; University of Exeter ; University of Virginia.

In addition, the aggregated faculties of the colleges making up the University of London received a rounded mean score of 4.5 and a median score of 4.5.

Evaluators: Roger Ariew, William Bechtel, Alexander Bird, Craig Callender, David Christensen, Michael Dickson, John Dupre, Marc Ereschefsky, Arthur Fine, Daniel Garber, Peter Godfrey-Smith, William Harper, Daniel Hausman, Christopher Hitchcock, Nicholas Huggett, Jim Joyce, Philip Kitcher, James Ladyman, Marc Lange, Elisabeth Lloyd, Barry Loewer, John Norton, David Papineau, Alexander Rosenberg, Howard Sankey, Simon Saunders, Jonathan Schaffer, Lawrence Sklar, Brian Skyrms, J.D. Trout, Eric Watkins. (Remember: Evaluators were not permitted to evaluate their own department or the department from which they received their graduate degree.)


 

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