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Top Metaethics and Moral Psychology Programs 2017-18 PGR

The full results for the 2017-18 Philosophical Gourmet Report, will appear online soon. Here is a preview of the top eight programs for Metaethics and Moral Psychology.

Metaethics and Moral Psychology

Group 1 (1-3) (rounded mean of 4.5) (median, mode)

Princeton University (4.5, 4.5 & 5)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (4.5, 4.5)
University of Southern California (4.5, 5)


Group 2 (4-8) (rounded mean of 4.0) (median, mode)

Brown University (4, 4)
New York University (4.25, 4 & 4.5)
University of Arizona (4, 4)
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (4, 4.5)
Yale University (4, 4)

Group 3 (9-19)  (rounded mean of 3.5) (median, mode)

Group 3 will be provided on the new Philosophical Gourmet Report site hosted by Wiley-Blackwell.

Group 4  (rounded mean of 3.0)

Group 4 will be provided on the new Philosophical Gourmet Report site hosted by Wiley-Blackwell.

Evaluators: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Avery Archer, John Bengson, John Brunero, Thomas Carson, Roger Crisp, Stephen Darwall, John Doris, Julia Driver, James Dreier, Gerald Dworkin, Johann Frick, Shelly Kagan, Gerald Lang, Brian Leiter, Ronald Mallon, Michael McKenna, Lionel McPherson, Alex Miller, Daniel Nolan, Alastair Norcross, Martha Nussbaum, Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, David Schmidtz, Russ Shafer-Landau, David Sosa, Stephen Stich, Larry Temkin, Manuel Vargas, Katja Vogt, Eric Wiland.

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