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I've listed below graduates of leading American PhD programs who are now teaching at one of "the top 20" U.S. programs in the 2011 PGR. Only PhD programs with placements in multiple top 20 departments are listed. Untenured faculty are marked with an asterisk. The list is for 2012-13. Kripke and Martin don't technically have PhDs, but did their graduate work at Harvard.
Faculty on tenure-track at the top twenty graduated from NYU (11), MIT (9), Princeton (7), Rutgers (7), Berkeley (4), Pittsburgh (4), Yale (3), Harvard (3), and two each from UCLA, North Carolina, Columbia, Cornell, and UC Irvine. Please e-mail me corrections.
Here are the programs with at least 10 graduates in the top 20:
1. Princeton (62 total; 7 junior)
2. Harvard University (58 total; 3 junior)
3. Massachussetts Institute of Technology (31 total; 9 junior)
4. University of Pittsburgh (28 total; 4 junior)
5. Yale University (22 total; 3 junior)
6. University of California, Berkeley (19 total; 4 junior)
7. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (17 total; 0 junior)
8. Columbia University (15 total; 2 junior)
9. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (14 total; 7 junior)
9. University of California, Los Angeles (14 total; 2 junior)
11. Cornell University (13 total; 2 junior)
11. New York University (13 total; 11 junior)
11. Stanford University (13 total; 1 junior)
14. University of Chicago (12 total; 0 junior)
Rutgers has been a top program for about 20 years, NYU for about 15 years; after them, the youngest top PhD programs on the list are MIT and Pittsburgh, which date from the 1960s. Harvard and Princeton were the top two departments from the 1960s until the rise of Rutgers and NYU in the 1990s. Cornell had a solidly top ten PhD program for much of the last fifty years, as did Berkeley and UCLA; Michigan has been in the top ten, often the top five, that entire time. Chicago's was a top ten program during much of the 1960s, 70s and perhaps 80s (Donald Davidson left Chicago in 1981, Christine Korsgaard in the early 1990s). Columbia and Yale have fluctuated from the top ten to well outside the top 25 during this half-century period. One conclusion one might draw is that being an elite research university can compensate for the weakness of the philosophy department, but a non-elite research university has to be absolutely tops (e.g., NYU, Rutgers, Pittsburgh) in order for its graduates to succeed in marked numbers. Michigan is perhaps the strangest underperformer here, relative to its steady prominence, though it still does respectably--the numbers are small enough that bad luck might explain the results (e.g., some prominent philosophers from Michigan died prematurely [Warren Quinn, Gregory Kavka, Robert C. Solomon]).
One non-US program--Oxford--would easily rank in the top ten if it had been included.
Here are the graduates by PhD program; only programs with at least four graduates in two or more departments (other than the PhD-granting department) are listed:
New York University PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: ---
3. Princeton: *Shamik Dasgupta
4. Michigan: ---
5. Harvard: ---
5. Pittsburgh: *Karl Schafer
7. MIT: *Brad Skow
7. Yale: ---
9. North Carolina: *Matthew Kotzen, *Ryan Preston
9. Stanford: *Anna-Sara Malmgren
11. Columbia: *John Morrison
11. UCLA: ---
11. USC: *Shieva Kleinschmidt
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: *Geoffrey Lee
18. Notre Dame: ---
19. Brown: Joshua Schechter
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: *Ray Buchanan, *Sinan Dogramaci, Adam Pautz
Rutgers University PhDs
1. NYU: Michael Strevens
2. Rutgers: Jonathan Schaffer
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: *David Manley, *Chandra Sripada
5. Harvard: ---
5. Pittsburgh: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: ---
9. Stanford: ---
9. North Carolina: ---
11. Columbia: *Karen Lewis
11. UCLA: *Sam Cumming, *Gabriel Greenberg
11. USC: Jacob Ross
14. Arizona: Shaun Nichols, Jonathan Weinberg
14. Cornell: Jill North, *Will Starr
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: ----
18. Notre Dame: *Meghan Sullivan, Ted Warfield
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: ---
Princeton University PhDs
1. NYU: Paul Boghossian, Jim Pryor, Samuel Scheffler, David Velleman
2. Rutgers: Jerry Fodor, Alvin Goldman, Stephen Stich, Larry Temkin
3. Princeton: Mark Johnston, *Boris Kment, *Sarah-Jane Leslie, Alexander Nehamas, Gideon Rosen
4. Michigan: *David Baker, Louis Loeb, Peter Railton, Lawrence Sklar, Jamie Tappenden
5. Pittsburgh: James Allen, Robert Brandom, Anja Jauering, Gerald Massey, Nicholas Rescher, Kieran Setiya
5. Harvard: Ned Hall
7. MIT: Alex Byrne, *Caspar Hare, Richard Holton, Rae Langton, Robert Stalnaker
7. Yale: Shelly Kagan, Joshua Knobe
9. North Carolina: Laurie Paul, Susan Wolf
9. Stanford: *Alexis Burgess, Michael Friedman
11. Columbia: John Collins, Patricia Kitcher, Philip Kitcher, Wolfgang Mann, Christia Mercer, *Daniel Rothschild
11. UCLA: Tyler Burge
11. USC: Zlatan Damnjanovic, Frank Lewis, Mark Schroeder, Gary Watson
14. Arizona: Jenann Ismael
14. Cornell: Tad Brennan, Nicholas Sturgeon
14. CUNY: David Rosenthal
14. UC Berkeley: Janet Broughton, *Lara Buchak, R. Jay Wallace
18. Notre Dame: Sean Kelsey, Jeffrey Speaks
19. Brown: James Dreier, Jaegwon Kim
20. Chicago: Michael Forster, Gabriel Richardson Lear
20. Texas: David Sosa, Paul Woodruff
University of Pittsburgh PhDs (Philosophy or HPS)
1. NYU: Tim Maudlin
2. Rutgers: Susanna Schellenberg, Ernest Sosa
3. Princeton: Hans Halvorson
4. Michigan: Gordon Belot, Laura Ruetsche
5. Pittsburgh: Anil Gupta, Sandra Mitchell
5. Harvard: Matthew Boyle, *Douglas Lavin
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: Stephen Darwall
9. North Carolina: Marc Lange, Ram Neta, John Roberts, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord
9. Stanford: ---
11. Columbia: ----
11. UCLA: ---
11. USC: ---
14. Arizona: Jerry Gaus
14. Cornell: ----
14. CUNY: Iakovos Vasiliou
14. UC Berkeley: John MacFarlane
18. Notre Dame: James Sterba
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: Kevin Davey, *Anton Ford, *Christopher Frey, David Finkelstein, Michael Kremer, *Ben Laurence, Candace Vogler
20. Texas: Daniel Bonevac, Cory Juhl
University of Michigan PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: Martha Bolton, Robert Bolton, Holly Smith
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: Daniel Jacobson, James Joyce, Donald Regan (Law)
5. Harvard: ---
5. Pittsburgh: Robert Batterman, Thomas Ricketts
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: ---
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: Nadeem Hussain, Krista Lawlor
11. Columbia: ---
11. UCLA: ---
11. USC: ---
14. Arizona: Terence Horgan, Connie Rosati
14. Cornell: Karen Bennett
14. CUNY: James Muyskens
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: Robert Audi
19. Brown: Felicia Ackerman
20. Chicago: Brian Leiter (Law)
20. Texas: ---
Harvard University PhDs
1. NYU: Ned Block, Hartry Field, Thomas Nagel, William Ruddick, Sharon Street
2. Rutgers: ---
3. Princeton: John Cooper, Daniel Garber, Gilbert Harman, Thomas Kelly
4. Michigan: Elizabeth Anderson, Allan Gibbard
5. Pittsburgh: *Japa Pallikkathayil, *James Shaw, Mark Wilson
5. Harvard: Warren Goldfarb, Christine Korsgaard, T.M. Scanlon
7. MIT: Irving Singer
7. Yale: Tamar Gendler, Thomas Pogge
9. North Carolina: Thomas Hill
9. Stanford: Joshua Cohen, Tamar Schapiro
11. Columbia: Michele Moody-Adams
11. UCLA: John Carriero, Barbara Herman, Pamela Hieryonmi, D. Anthony Martin
11. USC: Sharon Lloyd
14. Arizona: Julia Annas, Richard Healey
14. Cornell: Gail Fine, Harold Hodes, Richard Miller
14. CUNY: Jeffrey Blustein, Michael Devitt, Saul Kripke, Nicholas Pappas, Rohit Parikh, Steven Ross, Sybil Schwarzenbach
14. UC Berkeley: Hubert Dreyfus, Hannah Ginsborg, Alva Noe, Sherrilynn Roush, Barry Stroud, Daniel Warren
18. Notre Dame: Kenneth Sayre, Paul Weithman
19. Brown: Paul Guyer, Christopher Hill
20. Chicago: Daniel Brudney, Ted Cohen, James Conant, Arnold Davidson, Martha Nussbaum (also Law)
20. Texas: *Jon Litland, Ian Proops
Massachussetts Institute of Technology PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: Andy Egan, Jason Stanley
3. Princeton: Adam Elga, Delia Graff Fara, Elizabeth Harman, *Sarah McGrath
4. Michigan: Eric Lormand, Ishani Maitra, *Sarah Moss, Eric Swanson
5. Harvard: *Selim Berker, Frances Myrna Kamm, Peter Koellner, *Bernhard Nickel
5. Pittsburgh: ---
7. MIT: Agustin Rayo, Roger White
7. Yale: *Daniel Greco, Zoltan Szabo
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: Debra Satz
11. UCLA: ---
11. Columbia: ---
11. USC: Janet Levin, Scott Soames
14. Arizona: Marga Reimer, Carolina Sartorio
14. Cornell: Richard Boyd, Matti Eklund, *Kate Manne
14. CUNY: Robert Fiengo, Richard Mendelsohn
14. UC Berkeley: *Seth Yalcin
18. Notre Dame: ---
19. Brown: *Nina Emery
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: *Miriam Schoenfeld
Yale University PhDs
1. NYU: Don Garrett
2. Rutgers: Peter Klein
3. Princeton: Desmond Hogan
4. Michigan: Sarah Buss, Richmond Thomason
5. Pittsburgh: Adolf Grunbaum
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: Seyla Benhabib, Karsten Harries
9. North Carolina: Douglas Maclean
9. Stanford: ---
11. UCLA: ---
11. Columbia: *Elliot Paul
11. USC: Kevin Robb
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: Andrew Chignell
14. CUNY: Carol Gould, Douglas Lackey
14. UC Berkeley: *Timothy Clarke
18. Notre Dame: Karl Ameriks, Samuel Newlands
19. Brown: Charles Larmore
20. Chicago: Robert Gooding-Williams (Poli Sci), *Anat Schechtman
20. Texas: Kathleen Higgins, T.K. Seung
Stanford University PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: Barry Loewer
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Pittsburgh: ---
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: Sun-joo Shin, Gideon Yaffe (Law)
9. North Carolina: Thomas Hofweber
9. Stanford: Mark Crimmins
11. UCLA: Terence Parsons
11. Columbia: Taylor Carman
11. USC: ----
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: Stephen Neale
14. UC Berkeley: *Wesley Holliday, Paolo Mancosu
18. Notre Dame: Patricia Blanchette, David O'Connor
19. Brown: Nomy Arpaly
20. Chicago:
20. Texas: ---
University of California, Berkeley PhDs (Philosophy or Logic & Methodology of
Science)
1. NYU: John Richardson
2. Rutgers: ---
3. Princeton: John Burgess
4. Michigan: ---
5. Harvard: Sean Kelly
5. Pittsburgh: Kenneth Manders
7. MIT: Sally Haslanger, Vann McGee, Stephen Yablo
7. Yale: George Bealer, Michael Della Rocca
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: Christopher Bobonich, Graciela de Pierris
11. UCLA: ---
11. Columbia: *Tamar Lando
11. USC: *Kenny Easwaran
14. Arizona: Shaughan Lavine
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: Niko Kolodny
18. Notre Dame: *Joseph Karbowski
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: Jason Bridges, *Agnes Callard
20. Texas: Joshua Dever
University of California, Los Angeles PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: ---
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Pittsburgh: Michael Thompson
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: Keith DeRose
9. North Carolina: Dorit Bar-On, Bernard Boxill, Keith Simmons
9. Stanford: ---
11. UCLA: David Kaplan
11. Columbia: ---
14. Arizona: Houston Smit
14. Cornell: Derk Pereboom, *Erin Taylor
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: Timothy Bays
19. Brown: David Christensen
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: John Deigh, *Katherine Dunlop, Robert Koons
University of North Carolina PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: Brian McLaughlin
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Pittsburgh: ---
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: ---
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: ---
11. UCLA: *Katrina Elliott
11. Columbia: *Macalester Bell
11. USC: ---
14. Arizona: Michael Gill
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: ---
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: ---
Columbia University
1. NYU: *Laura Franklin-Hall, Liam Murphy (Law)
2. Rutgers: Peter Kivy
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Pittsburgh: Kenneth Schaffner
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: Scott Shapiro (Law)
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: ---
11. UCLA: ---
11. Columbia: Frederick Neuhouser, David Sidorsky
11. USC: James Higginbotham
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: Michelle Kosch
14. CUNY: Steven Cahn, Michael Levin
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: Janet Kourany, Fred Rush
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: Josef Stern, *Anubav Vasudevan
20. Texas: ---
University of Arizona PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: Anthony Gillies
3. Princeton: ---
4. Pittsburgh: ---
5. Michigan: ---
6. Harvard: ---
6. MIT: ---
8. Yale: ---
9. Stanford: ---
9. UC Berkeley: ---
9. UCLA: ---
9. North Carolina: ---
13. Columbia: Jody Kraus (Law)
13. Arizona: Stewart Cohen, Daniel Russell, David Schmidtz,
15. CUNY: ---
15. Notre Dame: Leopold Stubenberg
17. Brown: ---
17. Cornell: ---
17. USC: ---
20. Texas: ---
Brown University PhDs
1. NYU: Richard Foley
2. Rutgers: Dean Zimmerman
3. Princeton: ---
4. Pittsburgh: ---
5. Michigan: ---
6. Harvard: ---
6. MIT: ---
8. Yale: ---
9. Stanford: ---
9. UC Berkeley: ---
9. UCLA: ---
9. North Carolina: Michael Corrado (Law)
13. Columbia: ---
13. Arizona: Juan Comesana, Uriah Kriegel
15. CUNY: Linda Alcoff
15. Notre Dame: Michael DePaul
17. Brown: ---
17. Cornell: ---
17. USC: ---
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: ---
Cornell University PhDs
1. NYU: Paul Horwich
2. Rutgers: Robert Matthews
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Harvard: Richard Moran, Susanna Siegel
5. Pittsburgh: *Kristin Inglis
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: *Raul Saucedo
9. North Carolina: Marilyn Adams, Robert Adams, Gerald Postema, C.D.C. Reeve
9. Stanford: ---
11. UCLA: ---
11. Columbia: ---
11. USC: Ralph Wedgwood, Kadri Vihvelin
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: Scott MacDonald
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: ---
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: ---
University of Chicago PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: Martin Lin
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Pittsburgh: Stephen Engstrom, Peter Machamer
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: ---
9. North Carolina: William Lycan
9. Stanford: Kenneth Taylor
11. Columbia: Akeel Bilgrami, Carol Rovane
11. UCLA: ---
11. USC: Robin Jeshion
14. Arizona: Rachana Kamtekar
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: Barbara Montero, Jesse Prinz
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: ---
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: Sahotra Sarkar
University of Texas PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: ---
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: Victor Caston, Matt Evans
5. Pittsburgh: James Woodward
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: Kenneth Winkler
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: ---
11. UCLA: ---
11. Columbia: ---
11. USC: ---
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: Wm. David Solomon
19. Brown: ---
20. Chicago: *Malte Willer
20. Texas: ---
University of Pennsylvania PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: ---
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Pittsburgh: ---
5. Harvard: Alison Simmons
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: ---
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: R. Lanier Anderson
11. UCLA: ---
11. Columbia: ---
11. USC: Edwin McCann
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: ---
19. Brown: Bernard Reginster
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: ---
University of Wisconsin PhDs
1. NYU: ---
2. Rutgers: Branden Fitelson
3. Princeton: ---
4. Michigan: ---
5. Pittsburgh: ---
5. Harvard: ---
7. MIT: ---
7. Yale: ---
9. North Carolina: ---
9. Stanford: Alan Code
11. UCLA: ---
11. USC: Dallas Willard
11. Columbia: ---
14. Arizona: ---
14. Cornell: ---
14. CUNY: ---
14. UC Berkeley: ---
18. Notre Dame: ---
19. Brown: David Estlund
20. Chicago: ---
20. Texas: ---
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