Philosophical Gourmet Report 2009
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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PHILOSOPHY OF THE SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS

 

PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY

Group 1 (1-2) (rounded mean of 4.5) (median, mode)

Duke University (4.75, 5)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (4.5, 4)

Group 2 (3-8) (rounded mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Australian National University (4.25, 4.5)
Columbia University (4, 4)
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul (4, 4)
University of Pittsburgh (4, 3.75)
University of Sydney (4, 4.5)
University of Toronto (4, 4)

Group 3 (9-16)  (rounded mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Arizona State University (3.5, 3.5)
Florida State University (3, 3)
Harvard University (4, 4)
Indiana University, Bloomington (3.5, 4)
University of Bristol (3.5, 3.5)
University of California, Davis (4, 4)
University of Exeter (4, 4)
University of Utah (3.5, 3.5)

Group 4 (17-27)  (rounded mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (3, 3)
King’s College, London (3, 3)
University of Alberta (3, 3.25)
University of British Columbia (3.5, 4)
University of Calgary (3, 3.25)
University of California, Irvine (3, 4)
University of California, San Diego (2.75, 2.75)
University of Cincinnati (3, 3)
University of Maryland, College Park (3, 3.25)
University of Missouri, Columbia (3, 3.25)
University of Texas, Austin (3.5, 3.5)

* 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: John Dupre, Marc Ereshefsky, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Paul Griffiths, Edouard Machery, Mohan Matthen, David Papineau, Alexander Rosenberg, Elliott Sober, Kyle Stanford, William Wimsatt.

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).


 

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