Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Listmaker

"As a result, many top philosophers openly embrace his rankings, even as they despair at the influence of rankings in general. Very few deans of undergraduate colleges have kind words for, say, the US News & World Report survey, which they think is a crude tool, insufficiently precise. But dozens of philosophers speak up for Leiter."

Mark Oppenheimer in The Boston Globe profiles Brian Leiter and his efforts at ranking univerisity philosophy departments.

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