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 PHYSICS

Group 1 (1) (rounded mean of 5.0) (median, mode)

Oxford University (5, 5)

Group 2 (2-5) (rounded mean of 4.5) (median, mode)

University of California, Irvine (4.5, 4.5)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4.5, 4.5)
University of Pittsburgh (4.5, 4.5)
University of Western Ontario (4, 4)

Group 3 (6-13) (rounded mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (3.75, 4)
Columbia University (3.5, 3)
London School of Economics (3.5, 3.5)
Princeton University (4, 4)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.5, 3)
University of California, San Diego (4, 4)
University of Maryland, College Park (3.5, 3.25)
University of South Carolina (3.5, 3)

Group 4 (14-20) (rounded mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

University of Arizona (3.5, 3.5)
University of Illinois, Chicago (3.25, 3.5)
University of Leeds (3, 3)
University of Miami (3, 3.5)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3, 2.5)
University of Notre Dame (3.5, 3.5)
University of Sydney (3.25, 3.75)

Evaluators: Jeffrey Barrett, Craig Callender, Christopher Hitchcock, Nicholas Huggett, Barry Loewer, John Norton, Huw Price, Laura Ruetsche, Simon Saunders, Lawrence Sklar.

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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