(1) Do not think of them as ordinal rankings, even rough ordinal rankings: think of them as a list of programs that are worth investigating. You should certainly look at the rounded mean, the median, and the modes, but I wouldn't treat differences between groupings as particularly signific...
This is not a trend that is going to hit the selective liberal arts colleges (the kinds of schools in the US News "national liberal arts colleges' rankings), but it is going to hit a lot of regional colleges in the years ahead. Posted by Brian Leiter on August 26, 2024 at 02:34 ...
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it is correlative, collaborative and communitarian—so it seems to me. This is furthermore a good thing. Perhaps preoccupations about journal rankings and program hierarchies occlude
The 2011 Leiter rankings appeared on Tuesday. They reflect how a certain broad community of philosophers think about the discipline, and about where it is going. As such, it is instructive, absorbing, and fun to root around its wealth of detail. First, a (necessarily) broad-brush observation...
This is really a follow-up tothe discussion I initiateda couple of years ago on Brian Leiter’sLeiter Reportsblog about the state of Chinese Philosophy training in the English-speaking world. Some issues that came up in that discussion perhaps worth revisiting on this post’s comment string, ...
7.Philosopher's Imprintloses to Philosophical Review by 462–77, loses to Australasian Journal of Philosophy by 299–227 8.Philosophical Studiesloses to Philosophical Review by 476–72, loses to Philosopher's Imprint by 282–245 9.Philosophical Quarterlyloses to Philosophical Review by 475–59, los...
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