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 COGNITIVE SCIENCE

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

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (5, 5)

Group 2 (2-5) (mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

City University of New York Graduate Center (4, 3.75)
University of Arizona (4, 4)
University of California, San Diego (4, 5)
Washington University, St. Louis (4, 4)

Group 3 (6-12) (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Australian National University (4, 4)
Indiana University, Bloomington (3.5, 3.25)
New York University (4, 4.25)
Ohio State University (3.5, 3.0)
Oxford University (3.5, 3)
University of California, Berkeley (3.5, 4)
University of Edinburgh (4, 4)

Group 4 (13-32) (mean of 3.0)(median, mode)

Birkbeck College, University of London (2.5, 3)
Carnegie-Mellon University (3.5, 3.5)
Columbia University (3, 3)
Duke University (3, 3.25)
King's College, London (3, 3.5)
Princeton University (3, 3.0)
Syracuse University (2.5, 3.0)
*University of Adelaide
University of British Columbia (3.5, 3.5)
University of California, Riverside (3, 3.5)
University of Cincinnati (2.75, 3.5)
University of Maryland, College Park (3.5, 3.75)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (3, 3)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3, 3)
University of Pittsburgh (3, 3)
University of Sheffield (3, 3)
University of Sydney (3.5, 3.5)
University of Toronto (3.5, 2.75)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3, 3)
Yale University (3, 2)

* 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: Murat Aydede, William Bechtel, Jose Bermudez, Ned Block, Alex Byrne, Peter Carruthers, David Chalmers, John Doris, Owen Flanagan, Tamar Gendler, Alvin Goldman, Paul Griffiths, Gilbert Harman, David Hilbert, Sean Kelly, Patricia Kitcher, Joe Lau, Peter Ludlow, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols, David Papineau, Diana Raffman, Stephen Stich, Michael Strevens, Michael Tye, Robert Wilson, 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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