Ranking Philosophy Programs
There are now two sets of rankings of Ph.D.-granting philosophy departments in the United States: Brian Leiter’s Philosophical Gourmet (PG) and Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index...
View ArticleShortcomings of the FSP Index
I’ve learned this morning, from a comment to my last post and from an e-mail from a friend, about a problem with Academic Analytics’ Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index. In putting together the data...
View ArticlePhilosophy Rankings
The other day someone named Ann posted a comment to an earlier thread about philosophy rankings, including Brian Leiter’s Philosophical Gourmet Report. The upshot of her comment is that (1) she recalls...
View ArticleWhat Counts as Philosophy?
Apart from the question of “Who has the rights to the lands of Palestine?” little can be more contentious than the question, “What counts as philosophy?” What are the bounds of this discipline of ours?...
View Article20th century philwiki rocks a sinking boat
Even as I try to ignore those mean spirits, today I went to a certain blog and found this delightful bit: More PhD program wikis! Now we have 20th-century Continental philosophy, started by (brace...
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