This year, we set up the survey to calculate the mean for each faculty across all the areas of "metaphysics and epistemology" evaluated: in other words, the mean score across philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical logic, philosophy of action, and philosophy of religion. This measure obviously favors large departments (which can cover more areas) and does not discriminate between the relative importance and prestige of sub-fields within the metaphysics and epistemology category. Here are the top 20 departments across all these fields (with the mean score in parentheses):
1. Oxford University (4.3)
2. New York University (3.9)
2. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.9)
4. University of Notre Dame (3.8)
5. University of Texas, Austin (3.5)
6. Massachussetts Institute of Technology (3.4)
6. Princeton University (3.4)
6. University of St. Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (3.4)
9. University of California, Los Angeles (3.3)
10. Stanford University (3.2)
10. University of Pittsburgh (3.2)
10. University of Southern California (3.2)
13. Cornell University (3.1)
13. University of California, Berkeley (3.1)
13. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3.1)
13. Yale University (3.1)
17. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3.0)
18. City University of New York Graduate Center (2.9)
18. Columbia University (2.9)
18. Indiana University, Bloomington (2.9)
18. University of California, Riverside (2.9)
18. University of Massachussetts, Amherst (2.9)
Coming early next week: the top 20 across all areas of History of Philosophy and Philosophy of the Sciences and Mathematics.
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