Note: Be sure to see, under “Advice on Choosing Programs,” the discussion of the choice between Philosophy and History & Philosophy of Science programs.

GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (EXCLUDING PHILOSOPHY OF THE SPECIAL SCIENCES)

Group 1 (1-1) (rounded mean of 4.5)

University of Pittsburgh (4.5, 5)

Group 2 (2-9) (rounded mean of 4.0)

Cambridge University (4, 4)
Carnegie-Mellon University (4, 4)
Columbia University (incl. Barnard) (4, 4)
London School of Economics (4, 4)
University of California, Irvine (4, 4)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4, 4)
University of Western Ontario (4, 4)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (4, 4)

Group 3 (10-19) (rounded mean of 3.5)

New York University (4, 4)
Ohio State University (3.5, 4)
Oxford University (4, 4)
Stanford University (3.5, 3.5)
University of Bristol (4, 4)
University of California, San Diego (3.5, 3.5)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5, 3.5)
University of Notre Dame (3.5, 4)
University of Sydney (3.5, 4)
University of Toronto (3.75, 4)

Group 4 (20-37) (rounded mean of 3)

Australian National University (3, 3.5)
City University of New York Graduate Center (3, 3)
Duke University (2.75, 3)
Indiana University, Bloomington (3, 3)
Johns Hopkins University (3, 3.0 & 2.5)
Princeton University (3, 2.5 & 3.0)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.25, 2.5 & 3.5)
University of Arizona (3, 3)
University of British Columbia (3, 3)
University of Durham (3, 3)
University of Leeds (3, 3)
University of Maryland, College Park (3.5, 3.5)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul (2.75, 2.5 & 3.5)
University of Pennsylvania (3, 3)
University of Texas, Austin (3, 3)
University of Utah (3, 3)
University of Waterloo (3, 4)
Washington University, St. Louis (3, 3)

Additional programs not evaluated this year but recommended for consideration by the Advisory Board:
Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
University of Exeter
University of Kansas
University of South Carolina

Evaluators: Anna Alexandrova, Roger Ariew, Jeffrey Barrett, David Christensen, Marc Ereshefsky, Daniel Garber, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Gary Gutting, Alan Hajek, Hans Halvorson, Chris Hitchcock, Simon Hutteger, Jenann Ismael, Marc Lange, Barry Loewer, Jill North, John Norton, Samir Okasha, Gualtiero Piccinini , Huw Price, A. Rosenberg, Robert Rupert, Jonathan Schaffer, Lawrence Sklar, Brian Skyrms, Howard Sankey, Kyle Stanford, Michael Strevens, J.D. Trout, David Wallace, Michael Weisberg, Jim Woodward, Christian Wuthrich.