MOVING TO FRONT FROM DECEMBER 18 (for the benefit of those who may have missed it)
The following e-mail has gone out to evaluators; I'm also pasting it below, though correcting the bit about the time zones (which I messed up in the original, sorry folks!):
First: at the request of a number of you, we will extend the deadline for completing the survey to noon on Friday, January 9. That will be noon Chicago time, which would be 1 pm in, for example, New York City, 10 am in Los Angeles California, I believe 5 or 6 pm in London, and sometime in the early hours of the morning of Saturday in Australia. I hope this makes it easier for more of you to participate in the surveys.
Second: Please remember to click on "submit information" every 20 or 25 minutes. You can then go back into the survey quite easily. But the system automatically logs people off after awhile (longer than 25 minutes), and any scores entered will be lost if you have not clicked 'submit information.' And remember that once you 'submit information,' the faculties you have scored will be moved to the bottom of the survey page (under "Completed"), ordered based on the 'overall' score you assigned. You can then review your scores and adjust them as you see fit (though, again, remember to click 'submit information' every 20 or 25 minutes).
Third: there have been some corrections and additions since the start of the survey to faculties #24, 35, 43, and 99. Anyone who has scored these faculties either 'overall' or in 'specialty' areas may want to quickly revisit the scores in the event these changes would affect your assessment.
Fourth: Some evaluators have asked about the evidential standard on which they should base their evaluations. Evaluators take different approaches. I do encourage everyone to print out the full faculty lists and review them in hard copy before beginning. Some evaluators google faculty and department homepages to review more detailed profiles of the faculty. Others proceed in the evaluation on the basis of those faculty whose work they know best. Some choose only to evaluate faculties in their area of specialization, and not overall. If a faculty is one you would recommend (or not recommend) to a student considering graduate school, then you should feel comfortable evaluating it here. Remember that every evaluator has only imperfect and partial information, and it is precisely the point of a survey of hundreds of philosophers, representing many different specialties, to aggregate this imperfect information to produce a more informative picture than any individual could on his or her own. So do not set the evidential standard for an evaluation unreasonably high and bear in mind that a central point of this exercise is to correct for the fact that no one of us has perfect information about any faculty
Evaluators should e-mail me with any questions. Also, please note that everyone who participated in 2006 should have received an invitation this round. Two people, wisely, contacted me after not receiving an invitation, and it turned out there had been an email address error. So if you were an evaluator in 2006, and have not received a 2008 invite, please feel free to contact me as well.
About 100 philosophers have already completed some or all of the survey, for which my sincere thanks.
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