Canadian PhD programs in the 2006-08 PGR

Did UBC really not rank at all in History of Analytic Philosophy? If so that's surprising since Alan Richardson is there and quite good. <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>< HREF="http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/2006/11/canadian-phd-programs-in-2006-08-pgr.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="mlister at law dot upenn dot edu">Matt<>

No, UBC isn't in the list, nor are Carnegie Mellon, Arizona State, or McGill. UBC did rank last time, and Alberta, McGill, and Calgary got "notable"s. <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>Richard Zach

McGill is in Group 3 in Philosophy of Art. Now I'm worried that other things are missing, too. <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>< HREF="http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/caplan16/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="caplan dot 16 at osu dot edu">Ben Caplan<>

Thanks for putting this up. I think its striking that no Canadian University has any ranking in Epistemology. Anyone have any theories on why this is so? Is Epistemology just neglected by chance/historical accident? or is there some reason? (UBC, for example, just lost its epistemologist). I'd also have thought that Alberta (with Adam Morton) might get a mention in epistemology, but I guess Adam does too many other things to be considered primarily an epistemologist... <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>< HREF="http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/2006/11/canadian-phd-programs-in-2006-08-pgr.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="cstephen at interchange dot ub dot ca">Chris Stephens<>

Thanks, Ben, for finding this. I added Phil of Art for McGill. I hope that's the only omission. JC Beall also pointed out to me that I incorrectly listed the specialty "Philosophical Logic" as "Philosophy of Logic"; that's corrected as well. <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>< HREF="http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="rzach at ucalgary dot ca">Richard Zach<>

Glad you posted this summary. Three things that no doubt others will notice and perhaps have views on, one generic the others more specific to Canadian philosophy: (i) department size plays a large role in ranking judgments, most obviously in the number of specialty judgments associated each department; (ii) since the vast majority of reviewers are US based, there is a marked difference between overall and local means for non-US programs; I tend to think that the local means provide a more reliable guide to within-region rankings (for all three non-US regions, in fact); (iii) it's kind of surprising that despite having around 50 and 30 faculty members, and 23 and 12 ranked specializations, the overall ratings of Toronto and Western are not all that much higher than the next cluster of Canadian universities. <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>< HREF="http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Ephilosop/faculty/wilson/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="rwilson dot robert at gmail dot com">rob wilson<>

I just double-checked on UBC, since that omission struck me as suspicious, and this appears to have been a transcription error: in fact, UBC did rank in History of Analytic, and I'll get this corrected. Thanks. <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>< HREF="http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/2006/11/canadian-phd-programs-in-2006-08-pgr.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="bleiter at law dot utexas dot edu">Brian Leiter<>

History of Analytic added to UBC as per BL's comment. <><><><>Posted by<><> <><>< HREF="http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="rzach at ucalgary dot ca">Richard Zach<>