Philosophical Gourmet Report 2006-2008
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
Spacer1  

Spacer   Spacer
 

THEORY OF VALUE

 

POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Group 1 (1-3) (mean of 4.5) (median, mode)

Harvard University (4, 4)
Oxford University (4.5, 5)
University of Arizona (4.5, 4)

Group 2 (4-13) (mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Brown University (4, 4)
Columbia University (3.5, 5)
New York University (4.5, 5)
Princeton University (4, 4)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4, 4.5)
Stanford University (4.5, 4.5)
University College London (4, 3.5 & 4)
University of California, Berkeley (4, 4)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4, 4)
University of Toronto (4, 4 & 4.5)

Group 3 (14-27) (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Arizona State University (3.5, 3)
Australian National University (3.5, 4)
Cambridge University (3.5, 3)
Duke University (3.5, 3)
Georgetown University (3.5, 3)
Queen's University (3.75, 4)
Rice University (3, 3)
University of California, Los Angeles (3.5, 4)
University of California, San Diego (3.5, 4)
University of Chicago (3.5, 4)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5, 4)
University of Notre Dame (3.5, 4)
University of Pennsylvania (3.5, 4)
University of Virginia (4, 4)

Group 4 (28-44) (mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

* Bowling Green State University
City University of New York Graduate Center (3, 3.5)
Cornell University (3, 3 & 3.5)
Northwestern University (3, 3.5)
Syracuse University (3, 3.5)
University of Bristol (3, 3)
University of California, Davis (3, 2.5 & 3)
University of Florida, Gainesville (3, 3.5)
University of Maryland, College Park (3.25, 4)
University of Missouri, Columbia (3, 2.5)
University of Sheffield (3, 3)
University of St. Andrews (3.5, 3.5) (same score for Joint Program with Stirling )
University of Texas, Austin (3, 2.5)
University of Warwick (3, 3)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3, 3)
Washington University, St. Louis (3, 3)
Yale University (3, 2 & 3 & 4)

* inserted by Board
# based on 2004 results, in some cases with modest adjustments by the Advisory Board to reflect changes in staff in the interim

Evaluators: Christopher Bertram, Cristina Bicchieri, Brian Bix, Chris Bobonich, Samantha Brennan, David Brink, Jules Coleman, Roger Crisp, Stephen Davies, John Deigh, Julia Driver, Gerald Dworkin, William Edmundon, David Estlund, John Gardner, Gerald Gaus, Leslie J. Green, Brad Hooker, Thomas Hurka, Shelly Kagan, Christopher Kutz, Julian Lamont, Colin Macleod, Jefferson McMahan, Christopher Morris, Liam Murphy, Alastair Norcross, Calvin Normore, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Otsuka, Thomas Pogge, Gerald Postema, Michael Ridge, Arthur Ripstein, Mathias Risse, Michael Rosen, G. Sayre-McCord, David Schmidtz, John Simmons, Hillel Steiner, Wayne Sumner, Robert Talisse, John Tasioulas, Peter Vallentyne, Wil Waluchow, Andrew Williams, Jonathan Wolff.

Remember: evaluators were not permitted to evaluate either their own department or the department from which they received their highest degree (PhD, DPhil, sometimes the BPhil).


 

[ top ]