Brit and I delivered today the specialty rankings to Wiley-Blackwell; the rankings will go live at www.philosophicalgourmet.com starting around December 10. 

Here is what a full specialty ranking will look like, in this case for Early Modern Philosophy:  17th Century.  Recall schools are ranked by their rounded mean scores, and after the school names we list the median and mode.  After the list of ranked programs are a list of other programs recommended by members of the Advisory Board, in some cases after being nominated by evaluators.

EARLY MODERN PHILOSOPHY: 17^th CENTURY

Group 1 (1)  (rounded mean of 4.5)

Yale University (4.5, 5)

Group 2 (2-5)  (rounded mean of 4.0)

Harvard University (4, 4)

New York University (4.5, 4.5)

Princeton University (4, 4.5 & 4)

University of California, San Diego (4, 4)

Group 3 (6-12) (rounded mean of 3.5)

Rutgers University, New Brunswick (3.5, 4)

University of California, Los Angeles (4, 4)

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3.5, 3.5)

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill  (3.75, 4)

University of Notre Dame (3.5, 3.5 & 3)

University of Toronto (3.75, 4)

University of Wisconsin, Madison (3.5, 3.5)

Group 4 (13-24) (rounded mean of 3.0)

Birkbeck College, University of London (3, 3)

Columbia University (3.5, 4)

Johns Hopkins University (3, 3)

King’s College, London (3, 3.5)

Ohio State University (3.5, 3.5)

Oxford University (3, 3)

Purdue University (3, 3)

University of Pennsylvania (3.5, 3.5)

University of Southern California (3, 3 & 4)

University of Virginia (3.5, 3.5)

University of Western Ontario (3, 3.5 & 3)

Washington University, St. Louis (3, 3 & 2)

Additional programs not evaluated this year but recommended for consideration by the Advisory Board:

Simon Fraser University

University of Kentucky

University of South Florida

Evaluators:  Roger Ariew, John Carriero, Andrew Chignell, Michael Della Rocca, Lisa Downing, Daniel Garber, Don Garrett, Michael Gill, Dan Kaufman, Michael LeBuffe, Martin Lin, Antonia LoLordo, Yitzhak Melamed, John Morrison, Alan Nelson, Eric Schliesser, Eric Watkins, Kenneth Winkler.