Derek Muller offers another prognosis, based on the existing formula and the public data. Fluctuations in reputation scores, which do occur, will change the final results. One thing we know from the past is that the "overall" rankings starts to influence the reputational survey rankings. Will this start to affect schools like Columbia and NYU which are bizarrely under-ranked under the new formula?
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Fascinating! Thank you, I will look at this. I had studied metaphysics under Timothy Williamson before I started my PhD…
This is exactly the approach I take in Knowledge and its Place in Nature, Oxford University Press, 2002
Do you know of anyone who’s taken the approach you describe, in philosophy or the sciences? It seems interesting.
I suspect evolutionary and behavioural perspectives are left seriously underappreciated in this approach to epistemology. Reichenbach’s claim that epistemology must…
Just want to follow this conversation. Thanks
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…
I’m a graduate student in philosophy at a well-known terminal MA program who is applying to PhDs this fall and…