Philosophical Gourmet Report 2006-2008
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY

 

20TH–CENTURY CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY

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

University of Chicago (4.5, 5)

Group 2 (2-7) (mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Cambridge University (4, 4)
Columbia University (4, 3.5 & 4. & 4.5)
Georgetown University (4, 3)
Northwestern University (3.75, 5)
University of Essex (4, 4)
University of Notre Dame (4, 4 & 4.5)

Group 3 (8-16) (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

New York University (3.5, 3.5)
Oxford University (4, 4)
# State University of New York, Stony Brook
Syracuse University (3.5, 4)
University of Auckland (3.5, 4)
University of California, Berkeley (4, 4 & 4.5)
University of California, Riverside (3.5, 3.5)
* University of Sussex
University of Texas, Austin (4, 2.5 & 4)

Group 4 (17-33) (mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

* Boston College
Boston University (3.25, 4)
Brown University (3.5, 3.5 & 4)
Emory University (3, 3)
* Loyola University, Chicago
* New School University
# Pennsylvania State University
Rice University (3.25, 3.5)
Stanford University (3, 1 & 3 & 4 & 5)
* University College Dublin
University of Durham (3.25, 4.5)
* University of Kentucky
* University of Memphis
University of South Florida (3, 3)
University of Toronto (3.5, 4)
University of Warwick (3.25, 4)
* Vanderbilt University

* 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: Maudemarie Clark, David Dudrick, Paul Franks, Charles Guignon, Pierre Keller, Sean Kelly, Michelle Kosch, Brian Leiter, Rudolf Makkreel, Stephen Mulhall, Beatrice Han-Pile, Peter Poellner, Michael Rosen, Mark Sacks, Richard Schacht, 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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