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

 

HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY (incl. WITTGENSTEIN)

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

University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (4.5, 5)
University of Texas, Austin (4.25, 4.5)

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

Birkbeck College, University of London (4, 3.75)
Brown University (3.75, 5)
Harvard University (4, 4.5)
New York University (4, 4.25)
University of Chicago (4, 5)
University of Illinois, Chicago (4, 4)
University of Pittsburgh (4.25, 4.5)
University of York (4, 4)

Group 3 (11-20)  (rounded mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (3.5, 3.75)
City University of New York Graduate Center (3.5, 3.5)
Oxford University (4, 4)
Stanford University (2.5, 2.5)
University of California, Berkeley (3.5, 3.5)
University of California, Los Angeles (3.75, 3.5)
University of California, Riverside (3.5, 3.75)
University of  Notre Dame (3, 3)
University of Sheffield (3.5, 4)
University of Western Ontario (3, 3)

Group 4 (21-34)  (rounded mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

Boston University (3.25, 4)
Johns Hopkins University (2, 2)
King’s College, London (3, 3.5)
McGill University (3, 3)
*McMaster University
Ohio State University (3, 2.5)
*Trinity College Dublin
University of Alberta (3, 3.5)
University of British Columbia (3, 3)
University of California, Davis (3, 3)
University of California, Irvine (3, 3)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (3, 3)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3, 3)
University of Southern California (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: Warren Goldfarb, Jane Heal, Robin Jeshion, Bernard Linsky, Robert May, Stephen Mulhall, Peter Pagin, Ian Proops, Thomas Ricketts, Ian Rumfitt, Mark Sainsbury, Scott Soames, Jason Stanley.

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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