Philosophical Gourmet Report 2006-2008
Brian Leiter's Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World
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PHILOSOPHY OF ACTION (incl. free will)

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

Florida State University (4, 4)
University of California, Riverside (5, 5)

Group 2 (3-6) (mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Cornell University (4, 4)
New York University (4, 4.5)
Stanford University (4.5, 3 & 4.5 & 5)
University of Notre Dame (4, 4)

Group 3 (7-12) (mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Indiana University, Bloomington (3.5, 3.5)
Oxford University (3, 2.5 & 3)
University of California, Berkeley (3.25, 3 & 4)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (4, 3.5 & 4)
University of Southern California (4, 4)
University of Texas, Austin (3.5, 3.5 & 4.5)

Group 4 (13-19) (mean of 3.0) (median, mode)

Birbeck College, University of London (3.25, 4)
Brown University (3, 3)
King's College, London (3, 2 & 2.5 & 3 & 3.5)
Massachussetts Institute of Technology (3, 3.5)
Princeton University (3.25, 1.5 & 4)
Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3, 3)
University of Auckland (3, 3.5)
University of Calgary (3, 2.5 & 3.5)
University of Reading (3, 4)

Evaluators: Michael Bratman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Holton, Robert Kane, Christopher Kutz, Michael McKenna, Alfred Mele, Dana Nelkin, Timothy O'Connor, Derk Pereboom, Peter van Inwagen, Manuel Vargas, Ted Warfield, George Wilson.

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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