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 ACTION (incl. free will)

Group 1 (1) (mean of 5.0)

University of California, Riverside

Group 2 (2) (mean of 4.5)

Stanford University (4.5)

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

New York University (4.5)
University of Notre Dame (4.0)
University of Texas, Austin (3.75)

Group 4 (6-10) (mean of 3.5)

Florida State University (4.0)
Indiana University, Bloomington (3.0)
Princeton University (3.0)
University of California, Berkeley (3.5)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5)

Group 5 (11-18) (mean of 3.0)

Brown University (3.0)
Columbia University (3.0)
Harvard University (3.0)
Oxford University (3.0)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.0)
University of Auckland (2.5)
University of Maryland, College Park (3.0)
University of Southern California (3.0)

Also Notable (median of 3.0): City University of New York Graduate Center; University of Calgary ; University of California, Davis.

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 4.0.

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: Saint Louis University; University of Georgia.

Evaluators: Michael Bratman, John Martin Fischer, Patricia Greenspan, Richard Holton, Christopher Kutz, Alfred Mele, Timothy O'Connor, Derk Peereboom, Peter van Inwagen, Manuel Vargas, Ted Warfield, George Wilson. (Remember: Evaluators were not permitted to evaluate their own department or the department from which they received their graduate degree.)


 

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