Philosophical Gourmet Report

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The Philosophical Gourmet Report (also known as the Leiter Report or PGR), founded by philosophy and law professor Brian Leiter and now edited by philosophy professors Berit Brogaard and Christopher Pynes, is a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world. [1] [2]

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Background

The "Gourmet" Report ranking was created in response to the Gourman Report, and is based on a survey of philosophers who are nominated as evaluators by the Report's Advisory Board. Its purpose is to provide guidance to prospective Ph.D students, particularly those students who intend to pursue a professional career in academic philosophy. [3] The Report first appeared on the web in 1996; it is currently published and distributed by Blackwell.

In 1989, while he was a graduate student, Leiter made a subjective list of what he believed to be the top 25 graduate philosophy programs in the United States, which came to be the PGR. [4] The PGR was described by David L. Kirp in a 2003 New York Times op-ed as "the bible for prospective [philosophy] graduate students." [5] Carlin Romano, in America the Philosophical (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013), referred to the PGR rankings as "often-criticized" and "biased towards mainstream analytic departments". [6]

In 2002, 175 philosophers signed an open letter calling on Leiter to stop producing the PGR. [7] In fall 2014, over 600 philosophers signed a petition to boycott the PGR. The petition was organized by some philosophers at University of British Columbia to protest what they called a "derogatory and intimidating" e-mail sent by Leiter to one of their colleagues. Leiter claimed the recipient had threatened him. [4] 24 of the 56 members of the Advisory Board of the PGR recommended he relinquish control over the Report's management. [4] In response, Leiter appointed Berit Brogaard, a philosophy professor at the University of Miami, as co-editor for the 2014 report and agreed to step down as editor of subsequent editions. [8] Leiter subsequently appointed Christopher Pynes of Western Illinois University as co-editor of future editions.

Overall ranking worldwide (top 25)

Rank (2021-22) [9] SchoolCountry
1 New York University USA
2 Oxford University UK
3 Rutgers University, New Brunswick USA
4 Princeton University USA
5 University of Pittsburgh USA
6 University of Michigan USA
6 Yale University USA
8 University of Toronto Canada
9 Harvard University USA
9 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA
9 University of California, Berkeley USA
9 University of California, Los Angeles USA
9 University of Southern California USA
14 The Graduate Center, CUNY USA
14 Columbia University USA
14 Stanford University USA
14 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill USA
14 University of Notre Dame USA
19 University of Texas, Austin USA
20 Brown University USA
20 Cambridge University UK
22 Cornell University USA
22 University of California, San Diego USA
22 University of Chicago USA
25 Australian National University AUS
25 University of Arizona USA
25 University of Wisconsin, Madison USA

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  2. ↑ "The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2014-15"
  3. ↑ "What the Rankings Mean? 2021". The Philosophical Gourmet Report. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 Schmidt, Peter (September 26, 2014). "The Man Who Ranks Philosophy Departments Now Rankles Them, Too". The Chronicle of Higher Education . Archived from the original on September 26, 2014. Retrieved September 30, 2014.
  5. ↑ Kirp, David (October 27, 2003). "How Much for That Professor?". The New York Times. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Carlin Romano (2013). America the Philosophical. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN   9780345804709.
  7. ↑ Mangan, Katherine S. (January 18, 2002). "175 Philosophy Professors Blast Ranking of Graduate Programs". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved April 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Andy Thomason (October 10, 2014). "Controversial Philosopher Will Step Down as Editor of Influential Rankings". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  9. ↑ Weinberg, Justin (January 7, 2022). "Reputational Ranking of Philosophy PhD Programs Updated". Daily Nous. Retrieved January 25, 2023.
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