Programs with a rounded mean of 3.0 will be listed in the PGR. This is another area where there were significantly divergent opinions. The list of evaluators and a few comments of my own are below the fold.
20th Century Continental
|
Institution |
Rounded Mean |
Median |
Mode |
Group |
|
Columbia University |
4.0 |
4.00 |
5, 4 |
Group 1 |
|
Harvard University |
4.0 |
3.75 |
5, 4, 3 |
Group 1 |
|
Oxford University |
4.0 |
4.00 |
5, 3.5 |
Group 1 |
|
Boston University |
3.5 |
3.50 |
4.5, 4, 3 |
Group 2 |
|
Georgetown University |
3.5 |
4.00 |
4 |
Group 2 |
|
Northwestern University |
3.5 |
3.50 |
3.5 |
Group 2 |
Evaluators: Steven Crowell, Pierre Keller, Brian Leiter, Daniele Lorenzini, Jacob McNulty, Brian O'Connor, Michael Rosen, Joseph Schear, Iain Thomson, Georgia Warnke.
Harvard and Oxford certainly belong in the top group given the sigificant number of substantial scholars in the area ( at Harvard, e.g., P. Gordon, Kelly, Matherne, Moran, Rosen; at Oxford, e.g., Kirkpatrick, Mulhall, Schear, Wrathall). Columbia was more puzzling. Axel Honneth, a major figure in late 20th- and early 21st-century Continental philosophy is half-time at Columbia, but he is also 75 this year. Taylor Carman has done good work on Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, but after several decades at Barnard/Columbia, he has supervised almost no doctoral students (I do not know why). Lydia Goehr also has interests in 20th-century Continental philosophy, but her main work is in aesthetics. But it's hard for me to see Columbia as a more sensible choice than Georgetown or Northwestern.
I should add that there were programs that were not part of this year's survey that would be competitive with some of those listed above: most obviously, University College Dublin.
Of course, the point of a survey is that others have different opinions! As with all the specialty rankings, students should use them as a guide to programs worth exploring for themselves.
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