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

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

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (5, 5)

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (4.5, 4 & 4.5)
New York University (5, 5)
Oxford University (4.5, 5)

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

Australian National University (4, 4)
Princeton University (4.5, 4.5)
University of Notre Dame (4, 4)

Group 4 (8-24) (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Brown University (3.5, 3 & 4)
Cambridge University (3.5, 3.5)
City University of New York Graduate Center (3, 3)
Columbia University (3.5, 3.5)
Cornell University (3.5, 3.5)
University of Arizona (3.5, 3)
University of California, Irvine (3, 3)
University of California, Los Angeles (3.5, 4)
University of Leeds (3.5, 3)
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (3.5, 4)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3, 3 & 4)
University of Nottingham (3.5, 3.5)
University of Pittsburgh (4, 4)
University of Sheffield (3.5, 3 & 3.5 & 4)
University of St. Andrews (3.5, 3.5) (same score for Joint Program with Stirling )
University of Texas, Austin (3.5, 4)
Yale University (4, 4)

Group 5 (25-46) (mean of 3.0 ) (median, mode)

Birbeck College, University of London (3, 3)
Harvard University (3, 3)
King's College, London (3, 3)
Monash University (3, 3)
Ohio State University (3, 3)
Stanford University (3, 3)
Syracuse University (3, 3)
University College London (3, 3)
* University of Birmingham
University of California, Berkeley (3, 3)
University of California, Santa Barbara (3, 3)
University of California, Riverside (3, 3)
University of Colorado, Boulder (3.25, 4)
University of Durham (3, 3)
University of Melbourne (3, 3)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.5, 3)
University of Otago (3, 3)
University of Southern California (3, 3)
University of Sydney (3.5, 3.5)
University of Toronto (3, 3)
University of Virginia (3, 2 & 3)
University of Wisconsin, Madison (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: Jose Bermudez, Laurence BonJour, David Braddon-Mitchell, Alex Byrne, Quassim Cassam, Mark Colyvan, Michael Della Rocca, Michael Devitt, John Martin Fischer, Graeme Forbes, Tamar Gendler, Christopher Hill, Frank Jackson, Douglas Jesseph, Peter Kail, Kathrin Koslicki, Frederick Kroon, Bernard Linsky, E.J. Lowe, Michael Lynch, Alex Miller, Adrian Moore, Daniel Nolan, Paul Noordhof, Timothy O'Connor, Alex Oliver, L.A. Paul, Huw Price, Michael Rea, Denis Robinson, G. Rodriguez-Pereyra, Ian Rumfitt, Nathan Salmon, Carolina Sartorio, Jonathan Schaffer, Christopher Shields, Susanna Siegel, Ernest Sosa, Danial Stoljar, Michael Tye, Gabriel Uzquiano, Peter van Inwagen, 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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