Philosophical Gourmet Report 2006-2008
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) (mean of 5.0) (median, mode)

University of Pittsburgh (5, 5)

Group 2 (2-3) (mean of 4.5) (median, mode)

Oxford University (5, 5)
University of California, Irvine (4.75, 5)

Group 3 (4-10) (mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (4, 4.5)
Columbia University (4, 3.5 & 5)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4.5, 4.5)
University of Maryland, College Park (3.75, 3.5)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4, 5)
University of Sydney (4, 3.5 & 4)
University of Western Ontario (4, 3.5 & 4 & 4.5)

Group 4 (11-14) (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Princeton University (3.5, 3.5)
University of Arizona (3.75, 4)
University of California, San Diego (4, 4)
University of South Carolina (3.75, 4.5)

Group 5 (15-22) (mean of 3.0 ) (median, mode)

Johns Hopkins University (3, 3)
London School of Economics (3.5, 3.5)
University of California, Davis (3.5, 3.5)
University of California, Los Angeles (3.25, 4)
University of Illinois, Chicago (3.25, 4)
University of Leeds (3.5, 3.5)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3, 1.5 & 3)
University of Notre Dame (3.5, 3.5)
University of Washington, Seattle (3.25, 3.5)

Evaluators: Craig Callender, Hans Halvorson, Nicholas Huggett, Marc Lange, Barry Loewer, John Norton, Huw Price, 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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