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Best PhD Programs for Philosophy of Biology for 2016-17

Following up on this post, and once again taking account of faculty changes since the fall 2014 PGR, here's an attempted update of the top (3.5 or higher) programs for philosophy of biology for 2016-17, again by rough "clusters" of peer programs:

Group 1 (1-2)

University of Sydney

University of Wisconsin, Madison

Group 2 (3-5)

Australian National University

Duke University

University of Bristol 


Group 3 (6-7)

University of Calgary

University of Pittsburgh

(I would also look at the schools with a rounded mean of 3.0 in philosophy of biology, plus the University of Pennsylvania.)

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