Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 5 Programs in Philosophy of Biology

MOVING TO FRONT--ROUNDED MEAN SCORES WERE OMITTED ORIGINALLY

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 5 programs in philosophy of biology (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 10 Programs in Normative Ethics

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 10 programs in normative ethics (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 4 Programs in Philosophy of Religion

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 4 programs in philosophy of religion (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 7 Programs in Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 7 programs in philosophy of cognitive science (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 8 Programs in Metaphysics

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 8 programs in metaphysics (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 14 Programs in Philosophy of Law

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 14 programs in philosophy of law (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 11 Programs in Philosophical Logic

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 11 programs in philosophical logic (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 6 Programs in 19th-Century Continental Philosophy

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 6 programs in 19th-Century Continental philosophy (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 8 in Early Modern Philosophy: 17th Century

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 8 programs in Early Moern Philosophy:  17th Century (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 4 Programs in Philosophy of Mathematics

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 4 programs in philosophy of mathematics (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 9 Programs in Political Philosophy

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 9 programs in political philosophy (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 4 in Philosophy of Action

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 4 programs in philosophy of action (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 13 Programs in Kant

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 13 programs for Kant (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 5 Programs in Philosophy of Physics

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 5 programs in philosophy of physics (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 9 Programs in Ancient Philosophy

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 9 programs in ancient philosophy (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 16 Programs in Philosophy of Language

Continuing with the specialty previews, below the fold are the top 16 in philosophy of language (with median and mode scores in parentheses after each school's name):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 6 Programs in Philosophy of Mind

This week, I'll be posting previews of the results of the specialty rankings from the latest PGR surveys; once again, full results will be online at the official site around mid-December.

Here are the top six programs in philosophy of mind (after each school's name, in parentheses, are the median and mode scores as well):

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 5 U.K. Programs

Continuing with previews of some of the results of the 2021 PGR surveys, here are the top five U.K. programs:

More PGR previews coming

I'll have the top 5 overall in the UK later today or on the weekend, and then expect to have from Professor Pynes some of the specialty/subfield rankings by next week, and I'll once again share the top groups in several of those.

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 2 Canadian Programs

Continuing with previews of some of the results of the 2021 PGR surveys, the top two Canadian programs are the University of Toronto (#1 in Canada, mean score of 4.0, which would be just behind Michigan and Yale on the U.S. scale, and just ahead of Harvard, MIT, Berkeley et al.) and the University of British Columbia (#2 in Canada, mean score of 3.0, which would be #27 on the US scale).  Perhaps most notable is that Toronto is now solidly in the Anglophone top 10 (outside the US, only Oxford is stronger), and it is closing in on the U.S. top five.

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 3 Australasian Programs

Continuing with previews of some of the results of the 2021 PGR surveys, here are the top 3 Australsian programs (the full report will rank the top 5 programs in Australasia):

Rank	School	Mean score	Where the school would rank on the U.S. scale
1	Australian National University	3.4	22
2	University of Sydney	3.3	24
3	Australian Catholic University/Dianoia Institute	3.1	25

PGR 2021 Preview: Top 15 U.S. Programs (plus biggest upward movement)

Professor Pynes has shared the overall faculty ratings with me, and I will share portions of them in the coming days.   The full results will, hopefully, be online at the usual site by mid-December.

Here are the top 15 programs in the U.S. according to the 2021 PGR surveys:

Annals of unreliable data: "student ratings" of philosophy PhD programs

MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 8--UPDATED

This data was recently pointed out to me.  Apparently, the response rate to the surveys sent out was only 10%, which is remarkably low.   Many years ago, the PGR tried to survey student opinion, and here's what happened:  for most programs, only a few people responded, and they were almost all really angry about their program; for other programs, the department rallied their happy students to respond en masse and praise the program.  In other words, it quickly became clear the data was unrepresentative and worthless.  This looks to be the same.  (Of course, as I've emphasized for literally a quarter-century now, admitted PhD students must talk to current students to figure out what the situation really is at a program, and regardless of how good or bad the "student ratings" are.)

More useful is this data on job placement from the same source.  It covers the period 2012-2016, so is a bit dated.  Since job placement changes with changes in faculty quality (as we've seen in years past with, e.g., Rutgers, NYU and, more recently, Southern California), this is certainly a case where past performance does not guarantee future returns!  (The students securing jobs in this study would have been choosing graduate programs circa 2005-2010.)  (For concerns about this jobs data, see an earlier discussion.)

UPDATE:   A reader points out that the APDA folks have now taken the garbage data on student responses and produced a "ranking."  (It also lists the so-called "job placement" rate, which is calculated in a tendentious way that will mislead, rather than inform.)  Some of the programs that got favorable responses from (some unspecified number of) students do have good reputations for having a congenial and supportive environment for students (some do not), but students would be well-advised to talk to current students at any program they are considering, whether it is listed here or not.

2021 Philosophical Gourmet Report previews coming later this week

Professor Pynes tells me that more than 200 philosophers participated in this year's surveys, and the results are now being processed and organized.  I expect to have some previews of some of the results later this week.

PGR survey: the final 36 hours

The survey closes tomorrow, Thursday, November 4, at 11:59 pm Mountain time.  Professor Pynes reports that there are almost 200 completed surveys now, and several dozen still in process.  Those completing the surveys since Monday include Rachel Barney (Toronto), Victor Caston (Michigan), Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers), Cian Dorr (NYU), Richard Bradley (LSE), Lisa Downing (Ohio State), Christopher Bobonich (Stanford), Michael Rosen (Harvard), Edwin McCann (USC), Michael Rescorla (UCLA), Joseph Schear (Oxford), Justin Clarke-Doane (Columbia), and Samir Okasha (Bristol), among many others.

PGR deadline extended 72 hours

There's been a flurry of new responses since the update less than 48 hours ago, and since dozens of folks are still trying to finish, Professor Pynes tells me he will extend the deadline for PGR survey submissions 72 hours, until Thursday, November 4  at 11:59 pm Mountain time.  Among the philosophers who completed the surveys since the last update are Mitzi Lee (Colorado), Brian Leftow (Rutgers), John Doris (Cornell), Roger Crisp (Oxford), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers), Katja Vogt (Columbia), Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Christopher Shields (Notre Dame), Scott Soames (USC), Peter van Inwagen (Duke), Elinor Mason (UC Santa Barbara), Wesley Holliday (Berkeley), and Becko Copenhaver (Wash U/St. Louis), among many others.

PGR surveys scheduled to close this Monday, Nov. 1....

...at 11:59 pm Mountain time.  So if you've been procrastinating on your invitation, now is the time to complete the survey, and join the list of evaluators that have already completed the surveys, including Ted Sider, Brian Skyrms, David Enoch, Hanna Pickard, Cheryl Misak, John Hawthorne, David Wallace, Verity Harte, Shelly Kagan, Paul Guyer, Allen Wood, Lauren Ross, Al Mele, Ian Rumfitt, David Schmidtz, Jim Joyce, Jill North, Jaimie Dreier, Steven Crowell, Johann  Frick, Ian Phillips, Amanda Greene, Lee Braver, Alan Nelson, Eric Schwitzgebel, Justin Tiwald, Peter Carruthers, Lara Buchak, Daniel Stoljar, and many others!

Applying to PhD programs: how one leading PhD program looks at applications

Philosopher Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) shares some useful information, most of which rings true to me. 

(One additional note, regarding applicants with publications in good journals:  Professor Guerrero tells me on FB that about 5-8% of applicants to Rutgers have publications, but many of those are coming out of terminal MA programs or transferring from other PhD programs.  You do not need publications to be admitted to an excellent PhD program like Rutgers!  I've written in recent years for several students who were admitted to top five PhD programs, and none of them had publications in good philosophy journals; they did, of course, have strong academic records and good writing samples!)

Comments are open for philosophy faculty who want to add anything to Professor Guerrero's advice; signed comments only (full name and valid email address).

PGR surveys, reminder

Professor Pynes asked me to remind those who took the surveys in 2014 or 2017 of the following:  "University systems have become far more aggressive in blocking external emails," especially those with embedded links.  Professor Pynes asks that "folks who have participated in the past, who haven't gotten an invitation, but want to participate [should] contact me directly at CA-Pynes@wiu.edu.  I can send a link back via my .edu email and it should make it through."  

The 2021 survey is currently scheduled to close on Monday, November 1 at 11:59 pm Mountain time in the U.S. 

PGR surveys update

PGR surveys went out only about ten days ago, and Professor Pynes tells me there are already more than 150 philosophers who have completed or are in process of completing the survey.  Professor Pynes also tells me, however, that, "University systems have become far more aggressive in blocking external emails," especially those with embedded links.  Professor Pynes asks that "folks who have participated in the past, who haven't gotten an invitation, but want to participate [should] contact me directly at CA-Pynes@wiu.edu.  I can send a link back via my .edu email and it should make it through."   People who participated in 2017 or 2014 would all have received invitations this time around.  Do check your spam filters too!

Books with advice about the dissertation stage of a humanities PhD?

MOVING TO FRONT FROM OCTOBER 14--MANY INTERESTING SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS, MORE WELCOME

Adam Patterson, a PhD student in philosophy at Syracuse University, writes:

I was wondering if you wouldn't mind putting the following question to your readers: what are some good books that are about (and meant to help with) the dissertation phases of a humanities Ph.D.? I'm looking for recommendations, which might be useful to others in a similar position as me.

I'm in the dark about his; comments are open for suggestions.  Please do try to say something about the book (or article) you're recommending.

Draft faculty lists (FINAL draft) for ALL Departments for the 2021 PGR

MOVING TO FRONT--TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY FOR FEEDBACK/CORRECTIONS

Professor Christopher Pynes, co-editor of the PGR, has shared with me the FINAL draft of the faculty lists for the 2021 PGR, on which he welcomes feedback not later than September 27 (his contact information is on the draft, and please direct all questions and comments to him):  Download PGR faculty fall 2021 ALL Departments 18September2021_V5.  Only faculty in the departments should email Professor Pynes about changes that need to be made.   The faculty lists aim to include those with a tenure home in the philosophy department, with all others involved in training graduate students listed as "cognate" faculty.  "Part-time" faculty are half time, unless otherwise noted.

Note that some programs have been added to the faculty lists for purposes of the 2021 survey.  And a reminder that the editors have, for this new survey, decided to only note with an asterisk faculty over the age of 75 in the fall following the report (so fall 2022).  There has been a clear change in retirement patterns over the last decade, so that faculty who are still teaching at 70 are mostly still teaching at 75, but those still teaching at 75 are rarely teaching at 80.  So being 75 is far more relevant now than merely being 70,which seems to me right.

Professor Pynes tells me that the plan is to launch the survey around October 1, and that it will run for approximately three weeks.  Initial results will be posted here starting in the second or third week of November.

Blast from the past: what are "cognate faculty" for PGR purposes?

Back in 2014, but timely again.  Professor Pynes asked me to share this, in light of his current efforts to finalize the faculty lists for the 2021 PGR.

Philosophy of rhinos?

Philosopher Craig Callender (UC San Diego) suggested to me that this category should be added to the PGR; I assured him I'd raise it with Professors Brogaard and Pynes!  The suggestion did remind me of an old essay by my colleague (now Judge) Frank Easterbrook on why there was no course on "The Law of the Horse."

Draft faculty lists for UK, Canadian, and Australasian departments for 2021 PGR

MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY

Professor Christopher Pynes, co-editor of the PGR, has now shared with me the draft faculty lists for Anglophone departments outside the U.S. for the 2021 PGR, on which he welcomes feedback ASAP (his contact information is on the draft, and please direct all questions and comments to him):   Download PGR faculty lists non-US Departments 19August2021.   Only faculty in the departments should email Professor Pynes about changes that need to be made.   The faculty lists aim to include those with a tenure home in the philosophy department, with all others involved in training graduate students listed as "cognate" faculty.  "Part-time" faculty are half time, unless otherwise noted.  See the other details in the prior post about the draft US faculty lists.

Please also note that decisions have not yet been taken on what additional programs to include in the 2021 PGR:  the aim is to include programs that might make it into the U.S. top 50, the U.K. top 15, and the Canadian and Australasian top 5s.

Ranked philosophy departments that have no tenure-stream faculty specializing in the Continental traditions in philosophy after Kant

As philosophy departments increasingly hire specialists in currently trendy but niche areas like philosophy of race and gender (but never class), it remains remarkable how many departments currently do not have any tenure-stream faculty specializing in one of the most important periods of Western philosophy (but also hugely influential in non-Western traditions), that centered in Germany after Kant, but also reflected in other Continental European countries in the 19th- and 20th-century, especially France.  This, of course, puts the lie to the claim that Anglophone departments are "departments of Western philosophy," or "departments of European and American philosophy."  After considerable progress in the last forty years, it looks like Anglophone departments are now sliding backwards in terms of narrowness, even though I'm happy to bet that Schopenhauer and Marx and Foucault will be of interest in one hundred years, in a way that, say, the metaphysics of grounding will not.

UChicago's MA programs in humanities and social sciences

Students thinking about these programs ought to read this.  Students wanting to continue on for a PhD in philosophy would generally be much better off at one of the good terminal MA programs in philosophy.

(Thanks to Chris Morris for the pointer.)

Percentage of tenure-stream faculty who are female in PhD programs in philosophy increased about 40% since 2004...

(MOVING TO FRONT FROM JULY 22--SOME CORRECTIONS TO THE ADDENDUM)

...with some variation depending on the caliber of the program:  top analytically-oriented departments saw significant increases (18% of tenure-stream faculty were female in 2004, now 26% are), but still do not have as high a percentage of female faculty as programs in the SPEP universe of nominally "Continental"-oriented departments.   Since the "analytic" departments identify more closely with math and the natural sciences, it's not wholly surprising that female representation is more like what we find in those latter fields; by contrast, the SPEP departments tend to be more closely allied with humanities fields like English, which have higher proportions of female representation in the faculty ranks.  Given current hiring trends, and the pattern of recent retirements (overwhelmingly men), I expect female representation in tenure-stream philosophy positions will continue to increase.

ADDENDUM:  Regarding recent retirements (i.e., since the 2017 PGR),there were 37 retirements, phased retirements, or announced impending retirements, of which 7 were women, and 30 men.  The full list is below the fold:

2020-21 Update for U.S. schools for the 2017 Philosophical Gourmet Report

MOVING TO FRONT from May 26, 2021, UPDATED (MOST RECENT:  9/2/2021)--ORIGINALLY POSTED AUGUST 24, 2020 (recent updates [retirements] to Columbia, Cornell, Wash U/St. Louis).

Since the 2020-21 PGR has been delayed, this is a summary of changes at the tenured (or almost tenured) ranks at roughly the top 50 PhD programs in the U.S. since the 2017 Philosophical Gourmet Report; more precisely, these are changes that were not reflected in the faculty lists evaluators saw for the 2017 PGR surveys (some moves that weren't official until 2018 were reflected in the faculty lists for the 2017 surveys).  (Please e-mail me any corrections or additions, thanks.) 

At the end, I give a rough guesstimate of the new rankings in light of these changes if surveys were done this fall.

New York University (#1 in 2017 PGR):  Lost Jim Pryor (epistemology) to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Richard Foley (epistemology) and Beatrice Longuenesse (Kant, post-Kantian Continental philosophy), both of whom retired (or are about to retire), and David Velleman (ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action), who also retired and took up a Research Professorship at Johns Hopkins University.  Will probably remain #1 despite these significant losses.

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (#2 in 2017 PGR): Losing Anthony Gillies (philosophy of language, epistemology) to the University of Arizona.  Hired Karen Bennett (metaphysics) from Cornell, Derrick Darby (social & political philosophy, philosophy of race) from Michigan, Nir Eyal (bioethics) from the Harvard School of Public Health, Michael Glanzberg (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics) from Northwestern University, Brian Leftow (philosophy of religion, medieval philosophy) from Oxford University, and Michael Otsuka (political philosophy, ethics) from the LSE.  Daniel Hausman (philosophy of social science, ethics), who has retired at Wisconsin, has accepted a six-year appointment with the new Rutgers bioethics center, that will also include regular teaching in philosophy for the next six years.  Rutgers was already one of the very top programs in both metaphysics and philosophy of language, and will now be close to tops in philosophy of religion as well and a good choice for philosophy of race and also bioethics (with Frances Kamm, in addition to Eyal).  These appointments largely play to strengths, but will close the gap with #1 NYU somewhat (NYU's big advantage in terms of the overall rankings has been its broader coverage of philosophy, especially history of ancient and modern philosophy, including the post-Kantian Continental traditions).

Princeton University (#3 in 2017 PGR):  Lost Johann Frick (moral & politcal philosophy) to Berkeley and Alexander Nehamas (ancient philosophy, Nietzsche, aesthetics) to retirement; hired Lara Buchak (decision, game & rational theory) from the University of California, Berkeley and Andrew Chignell (Kant, philosophy of religion) (primary appointments in Religion and Center for Human Values) from the University of Pennsylvania.  Also added junior lateral Una Stojnic (philosophy of language, philosophical logic) from Columbia University.  Should remain squarely in the top three.

PGR Update

Philosophers Berit Brogaard (Miami) and Christopher Pynes (Western Illinois), editors of the PGR, asked me to share the following:

We are working to have a 2021-2022 report available for later this year.  The timeline for the survey isn't fixed yet, but the plan is for it to be early in the fall.  If folks have specific questions, they can email the editors.

Schools with the *most* philosophy majors and the highest percentage of philosophy majors among undergraduates

Fascinating data, courtesy of Professor Schwitzgebel.

Michigan philosophy will not be accepting PhD applications this fall, but will resume accepting applications the following year

Announcement here; they had unexpectedly large yields the last two years, so want to get back to a more normal size for the graduate program.

(Thanks to Abdul Ansari for the pointer.)

Australasian programs in the PGR

Several students have written regarding possible "updates" for Australasian progarms in the 2017 PGR; I apologize that I haven't put together an update similar to others I've done for other regions (with the generous help of Mitchell Barrington).  The top five in 2017 were ANU and Sydney at 1 and 2, and then a drop-off in scores before Monash, Melbourne, and Auckland.  I would expect that order to hold in 2021, but the big change in Australsia is the arrival of the Dianoia Institute of Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University.  ACU could come out as #1 in Australasia, given the strong faculty in M&E broadly speaking that they've put together, but ANU and Sydney will still be stronger for students interested in, e.g., philosophy of the sciences or many parts of value theory.  In any case, I would expect ACU, ANU and Sydney to be the dominant programs in Australasia in the next PGR.   (Readers will recall that Professors Brogaard and Pynes postponed the 2020 PGR due to the pandemic; I have not chatted with them recently about this, but the plan was to try to do a new set of surveys this fall.)

PhD programs that have suspended admissions for 2020-21

CHE has a comprehensive list.  Humanities fields dominate.

Where should students interested in post-Kantian German Idealism be applying this year in the US...

...given that two strong choices, Columbia and Chicago, have both suspended admissions.  Even if they hadn't, Johns Hopkins would be one of the top choices anyway (Michelle Kosch, Yitzhak Melamed, Dean Moyar), and deserves a serious look from all students interested in post-Kantian Idealism.  Other schools with tenure-stream faculty members (including at least one tenured) working on German Idealism that deserve a look include UC San Diego (Hardimon, Tolley, Watkins), UC Riverside (Keller, Newton), Harvard (Matherne, Rosen), Yale (Franks), Syracuse (Beiser), Northwestern (Alznauer, Zuckert), BU (Sedgwick, Speight, Dahlstrom), Berkeley (Novakovic), Georgetown (Pinkard), Purdue (Yeomans).  (Allen Wood at Indiana tells he may retire in the near future, so I don't think Indiana makes sense any longer.)

ADDENDUM:  Philosopher Karin Nisenbaum (Boston College) informed me that Frederick Beiser at Syracuse is no longer accepting graduate students.  It's also worth noting that Nisenbaum is one of two junior faculty at Boston College (the other is Elisa Magri) working on post-Kantian Idealism.

2020-21 Update for the top ten U.K. schools ranked in the 2017 PGR

MOVING TO FRONT--ORIGINALLY POSTED OCTOBER 14 (changes to:  Leeds)

Since the 2020-21 PGR has been delayed, this is a summary of changes at the tenured (or almost tenured) ranks at the top 10 PhD programs in the United Kingdom since the 2017 Philosophical Gourmet Report; more precisely, these are changes that were not reflected in the faculty lists evaluators saw for the 2017 PGR surveys (some moves that weren't official until 2018 were reflected in the faculty lists for the 2017 surveys).  (Please e-mail me any corrections or additions, thanks.)   My thanks to Mitchell Barrington for his assistance in compiling this information.  (I will fill out the top 15 from the UK at a later date.)  (The Canadian updates are here, the U.S. updates are here.)

Oxford University (#1 in the UK, #2 in the world):  Added Catherine Abell (philosophy of art) from Manchester; Joel David Hamkins (logic) from CUNY; Nicholas Jones (metaphysics) from Birmingham; Amia Srinivasan (epistemology, social-political philosophy) from UCL; John Tasioulas (ethics, philosophy of law) from King's College, London; and Mark Wynn (philosophy of religion) from  Leeds.  Lost Ralf Bader (Kant, political philosophy, ethics) to Fribourg (Switzerland); John Hyman (philosophy of action and mind) to UCL; Brian Leftow (medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion) to Rutgers.  Stephen Blamey (logic, philosophical logic) and Elizabeth Fricker (epistemology, philosophy of language) retired.  John Gardner (philosophy of law, ethics) passed away.  Will surely remain #1 in the UK, and probably #2 in the world.

Cambridge University (#2 in the UK, #19 in the world): added Alexander Bird (philosophy of science & medicine) from King's College, London.  Lost Tim Button to UCL; Tom Dougherty (moral & political philosophy) to North Carolina/Chapel Hill; Huw Price(philosophy of science and physics, philosophy of language, metaphysics) to retirement (although he retains a half-time role at Cambridge, but has no formal teaching duties); Maarten Steehagen (aesthetics, philosophy of mind) to Uppsala.  Will probably still remain #2 in the UK.

University of St Andrews/University of Stirling Joint Program (#3 in the UK, #24 in the world).   Lost Barbara Sattler (ancient) to Rohr University Bochum.  Added Franz Berto (logic, metaphysics) from the University of Amsterdam.  Crispin Wright (philosophy of language, math and logic, epistemology) is also now back part-time at the University of Stirling (he is at NYU the rest of the time).   St Andrews has also added a number of short-term visitors, mostly from the U.S.

MA programs in philosophy with funding

Via Geoff Pynn's FB page, I discover this useful resource.  It lists both free-standing terminal MA programs and those embedded in PhD-granting departments.   But do see the guidance in the PGR on how to approach MA programs, especially those embedded in PhD departments.  I increasingly counsel students to avoid Tufts, notwithstanding the strength of the faculty, since they do not provide adequate financial aid for their MA students.

 

2020-21 Update for top five Canadian schools from the 2017 PGR

MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 25--CORRECTED

Since the 2020-21 PGR has been delayed, this is a summary of changes at the tenured (or almost tenured) ranks at the top 5 PhD programs in Canada since the 2017 Philosophical Gourmet Report; more precisely, these are changes that were not reflected in the faculty lists evaluators saw for the 2017 PGR surveys (some moves that weren't official until 2018 were reflected in the faculty lists for the 2017 surveys).  (Please e-mail me any corrections or additions, thanks.)   My thanks to Mitchell Barrington for his assistance in compiling this information.

University of Toronto (#1 in Canada, #10 in world in 2017 PGR):  Added George Boys-Stones (ancient) from Durham; Michael Caie (philosophical logic, philosophy of language, formal epistemology) and (advanced junior lateral) Jessica Gelber (ancient Greek and Roman philosophy) from the University of Pittsburgh; Chris Fraser (classical Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy) from the University of Hong; Elisa Freschi (advanced junior lateral) from the University of Vienna and Jonardon Ganeri from NYU-Abu Dhabi, both experts in Indian philosophy; and Michael Rosenthal (early modern, Jewish philosophy) from the University of Washington.  Lost Charles Brittain (ancient) back to Cornell University.  May lose Karolina Hubner (early modern) to Cornell, where she is currently teaching (but it appears she has not resigned yet from Toronto).  Will now be the strongest department in North America, and probably the Anglophone world, for students interested in some of the major non-Western philosophical traditions.

PGR haters are strangely self-unaware

Here is philosopher Udo  Schuklenk (Queen's/Canada) declaring that "no serious academic would...lend their time to" the PGR.

You can see a complete list of the several hundred "unserious" academics who "lend their time" to the PGR:  it includes Brian Skyrms, Anthony Appiah, Ernest Sosa, Penelope Maddy, Cristina Bicchieri, Paul Guyer, Timothy Williamson, John Hawthorne, Alex Byrne, Gregory Currie, Martha Nussbaum, Terence Irwin, Jennifer Lackey, Cheryl Misak, Calvin Normore, Ian Rumfitt, Carolina Sartorio, Susanna Siegel, Allen Wood:  "no serious academics"!

Student-maintained Philosophy admissions for 2020-21 spread sheet...

...here.

(Thanks to Linds Whitaker for the pointner.)