Philosophical Gourmet Report 2009
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY

 

METAPHYSICS

Group 1 (1) (mean of 5.0)(median, mode)

New York University (5, 5)

Group 2 (2-4) (mean of 4.5)(median, mode)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4.5, 5)
Oxford University (4.5, 5)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (4.5, 4)

Group 3 (5-7) (mean of 4.0)(median, mode)

Australian National University (4, 4)
Princeton University (4, 4)
University of Notre Dame (4, 4)

Group 4 (8-17) (mean of 3.5)(median, mode)

City University of New York Graduate Center (3.5, 3.5)
Columbia University (3.5, 3.5)
Cornell University (3.5, 3.5)
Syracuse University (3.5, 4)
University of Colorado, Boulder (3.5, 3.5)
University of Leeds (3.5, 3)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5, 4)
University of Nottingham (3.5, 3.5)
University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (3.5, 4)
Yale University (3.5, 3.5)

Group 5 (18-47) (mean of 3.0)(median, mode)

Brown University (3, 3)
Cambridge University (3.5, 3.5)
Harvard University (3, 3.5)
Indiana University, Bloomington (2.5, 2.5)
King’s College, London (2.5, 3)
Monash University (3, 3)
Ohio State University (3, 3)
Stanford University (3, 3)
*Trinity College Dublin
University College London (3, 2)
University of Arizona (3, 3)
University of Auckland (2.5, 3)
University of Bristol (2.5, 3.25)
University of California, Los Angeles (3, 3)
University of California, Santa Barbara (3, 3)
University of Durham (2.75, 3)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (3, 3)
University of Miami (3, 3.5)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3, 3)
University of Otago (3, 3)
University of Pittsburgh (3.5, 4)
University of Reading (2.5, 3)
University of Sheffield (3, 3)
University of Southern California (3, 3)
University of Sydney (3.5, 3.25)
University of Texas, Austin (3, 3)
University of Toronto (3, 2.75)
University of Virginia (3, 3)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (3, 3)
Washington University, St. Louis (3, 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: Lynne Rudder Baker, Jose Bermudez, Alex Byrne, Quassim Cassam, David Chalmers, Mark Colyvan, Jan Cover, Andy Egan, Michael Della Rocca, Michael Devitt, John Martin Fischer, Graeme Forbes, Richard Fumerton, Tamar Gendler, Sally Haslanger, Hud Hudson, Douglas Jesseph, Peter Kail, Dan Kaufman, Kathrin Koslicki, Frederick Kroon, Bernard Linsky, E.J. Lowe, Michael Lynch, Alex Miller, Daniel Nolan, Paul Noordhof, Timothy O’Connor, Alex Oliver, Laurie Paul, Adam Pautz, Huw Price, Michael Rea, Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra, Denis Robinson, Ian Rumfitt, Nathan Salmon, Carolina Sartorio, Jonathan Schaffer, Christopher Shields, Susanna Siegel, Ted Sider, Ernest Sosa, Michael Tye, Gabriel Uzquiano,Ted Warfield, Brian Weatherson, Timothy Williamson, Crispin Wright, Stephen Yablo, Aaron Zimmerman, Dean Zimmerman.

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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