[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
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
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
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
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
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
3/15–Moving to the top since the meeting is this week; hope to see you there!
Here are some notes relevant to the table given in my last post. … Continue reading
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
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