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

 

19TH–CENTURY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

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

New York University (4.5, 5)
University of Chicago (5, 5)

Group 2 (3-10) (mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Brown University (4, 4)
Columbia University (4, 4)
Georgetown University (4.25, 5)
Indiana University, Bloomington (4, 4)
Syracuse University (4, 3)
University of California, Riverside (4, 4)
#University of Southampton
University of Warwick (4, 4.25)

Group 3 (11-18)  (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Boston University (4, 3.5 & 4.5)
Cambridge University (3.5, 4)
Princeton University (3.5, 4)
Stanford University (3.75, 4)
*University of Essex
University of Notre Dame (3.5, 3 & 3.5)
University of Sheffield (4, 4)
University of Toronto (4, 4.5)

Group 4 (19-31)  (mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

#Emory University
Johns Hopkins University (3.5, 3.5)
Northwestern University (3, 3)
#University at Stony Brook, State University of New York
University College London (3.5, 3.75)
University of California, San Diego (3, 3)
University of Auckland (2.75, 3.5)
University of Illinois, Chicago (3, 3)
*University of Kentucky
*University of New Mexico
University of Pennsylvania (3.5, 4)
University of Pittsburgh (3.25, 4)
University of Texas, Austin (2.75, 3)

* 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: Kenneth Baynes, Frederick Beiser, Taylor Carman, Thomas Carson, Andrew Chitty, David Dudrick, Ken Gemes, Beatrice Han-Pile, Stephen Houlgate, Christopher Janaway, Peter Kail, Paul Katsafanas, Pierre Keller, Michelle Kosch, Brian Leiter, Stephen Mulhall, Brian O’Connor, Peter Poellner, Paul Redding, Bernard Reginster, Mathias Risse, Michael Rosen, Robert Stern, Iain Thomson, Robert Wicks, Jonathan Wolff, Mark Wrathall, Julian Young.

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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