Philosophical Gourmet Report 2002-2004
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

 
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EPISTEMOLOGY

Group 1 (1) (mean of 5.0)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (5.0)

Group 2 (2) (mean of 4.5)

Oxford University (4.5)

Group 3 (3-6) (mean of 4.0)

Brown University (4.0)
New York University (4.0)
Princeton University (4.0)
University of Notre Dame (4.0)

Group 4 (7-17) (mean of 3.5)

Arizona State University (3.0)
Columbia University (3.5)
University of Arizona (3.5)
University of California, Berkeley (3.5)
University of Massachussetts, Amherst (3.5)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5)
University of Pittsburgh (4.0)
University of Rochester (3.5)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (3.5)
University of Washington, Seattle (3.5)
Yale University (3.5)

Group 5 (18-31) (mean of 3.0)

Australian National University (3.5)
Cambridge University (3.0)
Cornell University (3.25)
Indiana University, Bloomington (3.0)
Johns Hopkins University (3.0)
University College London (3.0)
University of California, Los Angeles (3.0)
University of Iowa (3.0)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2.5)
University of Missouri, Columbia (3.0)
University of Oklahoma, Norman (3.0)
University of St. Andrews (3.0)
University of Texas, Austin (3.0)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3.0)

Also Notable (median of 3.0): Stanford University.

In addition, the aggregated faculties of the colleges making up the University of London received a rounded mean score of 3.5 and a median score of 3.75.

In the judgment of the Advisory Board, the following programs that were not part of the survey ought to be considered by students interested in this area: Fordham University; Loyola University, Chicago.

Evaluators: Brad Armendt, David Christensen, Juan Comesana, Earl Conee, Tom Crisp, Jonathan Dancy, Keith DeRose, Richard Feldman, Bryan Frances, Tamar Gendler, Brie Gertler, Anthony Gillies, Alvin Goldman, Delia Graff, Patrick Greenough, Anil Gupta, Gilbert Harman, John Hawthorne, Christopher Hookway, Robin Jeshion, Douglas Jesseph, Peter Klein, Hilary Kornblith, Jonathan Kvanvig, Jennifer Lackey, Brian McLaughlin, Cheryl Misak, Ram Neta, George Pappas, Peter Poellner, Duncan Pritchard, Jonathan Schaffer, Brian Skyrms, David Sosa, Ernest Sosa, Robert Stern, Stephen Stich, J.D. Trout, Ted Warfield, Brian Weatherson, Ralph Wedgwood, Timothy Williamson. (Remember: Evaluators were not permitted to evaluate their own department or the department from which they received their graduate degree.)


 

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