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Monthly Archives: December 2007

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Journal rankings by Hirsch Scores

Posted on December 28, 2007 by Gregory Wheeler
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[Update: The CENTRIA servers are down for maintenance. The links here should be back on 30 December.] This link is to an excel spreadsheet of h- and g-scores of 75 philosophy journals that were recently classified by the European Science … Continue reading →

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Informed Surveys: Some Thoughts on How to Gather Information About, Evaluate, and Rank Philosophy Programs

Posted on December 22, 2007 by DeRose
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Here are some ideas about how philosophy programs might be evaluated more effectively than they now are. Right now, the most widely used evaluations are those of the Philosophical Gourmet Report. (Disclosure: I’m on the Advisory Board of the PGR, … Continue reading →

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Complete Rankings of Philosophy Departments Based on Hirsch Numbers

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Kvanvig Jon
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Lots of emails from people at unrated programs, so I finally caved and gathered data from all programs. Info below the fold, but I want to reiterate the shortcomings of the data and the significance of the exercise once more. … Continue reading →

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A Sample of Hirsch Numbers for Unrated Programs

Posted on December 17, 2007 by Kvanvig Jon
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One might wonder what Hirsch numbers show about departments that are not Leiter-rated. I did, because I hear lots of howling about certain departments being excluded from that report, so I sampled some. Results below the fold, but first some … Continue reading →

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Hirsch Number Impact of Known Faculty Moves

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Kvanvig Jon
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I’ve added one more page to the Page box in the right sidebar, a page using the data originally reported here (with further discussion of the value of the data here and here) to compare the rankings of departments from … Continue reading →

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How Does Google Scholar Work?

Posted on December 13, 2007 by DeRose
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A few years ago, I published a paper in which I not only cited, but also discussed at considerable length, an epistemology paper by Robert Hambourger. I wrote that Hambourger’s paper was “fascinating, but largely overlooked.” Several months ago, I … Continue reading →

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Epistemology at the Pacific Meeting

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Kvanvig Jon
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3/15–Moving to the top since the meeting is this week; hope to see you there!

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Notes on Last Post

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Kvanvig Jon
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Here are some notes relevant to the table given in my last post. … Continue reading →

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Hirsch Numbers for Departments

Posted on December 13, 2007 by Kvanvig Jon
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UPDATE: Because of high interest level, I’m moving this to the top. See also here for notes about the table below. SECOND UPDATE: I’ve created a page with just the ranking tables, both the ones in this post and another … Continue reading →

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Ellen in Epistemology

Posted on December 12, 2007 by Kvanvig Jon
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In case you missed it, Ellen DeGeneres just visited Peter Kosso’s Epistemology Class at Northern Arizona. She wanted to know what justifies a belief, which was right on topic, and then proceeded to try to turn it into something else. … Continue reading →

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