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	Gourmet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A gourmet is a person with a discriminating palate and who is knowledgeable in fine food and drink.
		It is often used as an adjective for meals of especially high quality, whose makers or preparers have used especial effort or art in presentation or cooking the meal, or for facilities equipped for preparing such meals, such as a restaurant.
		Foodie is a conversational synonym for gourmet that is frequently used in the media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gourmet (187 words)

	APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession: Index
		The American Philosophical Association is concerned that the Philosophical Gourmet Report, assembled by Brian Leiter and appearing on the Blackwell Publishing website, may be misunderstood by some as a ranking of graduate philosophy programs in the United States that the APA accepts as the legitimate authority in such matters.
		The American Philosophical Association wishes to caution those using the Philosophical Gourmet Report that it may not adequately reflect the quality of many philosophy departments because the strengths of those departments fall outside the factors that are considered important by the compiler of the Report.
		The data on funded research is useful because it shows that expectations for philosophers to fund their own graduate students on the model of science departments is unrealistic, and that external funding, in general, is not available in a manner comparable to the sciences.
	www.apa.udel.edu /apa/governance/committees/status/report2003.html (2060 words)

	Philosophical Gourmet Report ranks Chicago tops in continental philosophy
		Published by Blackwell, The Philosophical Gourmet Report ranks Chicago’s Philosophy Department first in the field of continental philosophy.
		The Philosophical Gourmet Report “measures the philosophical distinction of the faculty,” according to Leiter.
		Leiter began writing the report in 1989 as an informative tool for University of Michigan undergraduate students applying to graduate schools.
	chronicle.uchicago.edu /990415/philosophy.shtml (632 words)

	Report Recognizes Department of Philosophy - News and Information \| Saint Louis University
		The report is a highly read gossip column that offers insights on the profession and its members, as well as rankings and evaluations.
		The report ranks departments based upon highly regarded philosophers in the field.
		The department also was included among those possessing "a real mix of Anglo-American 'analytic' philosophy, as well as Continental philosophy and sometimes also history of philosophy." For the full report, visit Philosophical Gourmet Report online.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/newsinfo/294 (163 words)

	The Chronicle: 5/20/2005: Deep Thought, Quantified
		The report was born in 1989, during Brian Leiter's second year of graduate school at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
		Leiter has his own blog, called Leiter Reports (http://leiterreports.typepad.com), where he dishes about such matters, speculating on the comings and goings of prominent philosophers and about what the moves might mean for a department's reputation.
		Leiter, complaining that the rankings promoted a "narrow and inappropriate standard of departmental excellence." Just because a philosopher was famous, the letter said, didn't mean he or she was a good teacher or adviser.
	chronicle.com /free/v51/i37/37a00801.htm (2914 words)

	Leiter Reports: A Group Blog (Jan. 23-May 31 2006): Philosophical Gourmet Report
		The PGR is a welcome breath of fresh air, and is an invaluable resource for prospective and current students as well as professional philosophers for providing an overview of the field (as objectively as is probably possible).
		The PGR doesn't report who is sleeping with whom, who is getting divorced, who is harassing students; it reports professional information of relevance to students.
		Just because a philosopher was famous, the letter said, didn't mean he or she was a good teacher or adviser.
	leiterreports.typepad.com /blog/philosophical_gourmet_report (10868 words)

	Obscure and Confused Ideas: A "Gourmet Report" for grad school mentoring
		Most (if not all) of the readers here are familiar with Brian Leiter's Philosophical Gourmet Report, which ranks graduate programs by the research quality of each department's members.
		The PGR's primary goal is to help clueless undergraduates (such as myself 6 years ago) figure out which programs are strongest -- both overall and in particular sub-fields of philosophy.
		The Philosophical Gourmet Report is, as Leiter himself says, not a perfect instrument.
	obscureandconfused.blogspot.com /2005/12/gourmet-report-for-grad-school.html (312 words)

	Today@UCI: Press Releases:
		The 2000-2001 report also included specialty rankings for the first time: UCI received the top rating for its programs in philosophy of physics, decision theory/rational choice theory/game theory, rationalists and empiricists.
		The annual on-line Philosophical Gourmet Report by jurisprudence scholar Brian Leiter ranks 60 U.S. graduate programs in philosophy, primarily on the basis of the quality of tenured faculty.
		The report was first compiled about 10 years ago as an aid to prospective graduate students by Leiter, who is philosophy professor, director of the law and philosophy program and Charles I. Francis Professor in the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin.
	today.uci.edu /news/release_detail.asp?key=707 (672 words)

	The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2004 - 2006 :: Overall Rankings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This year's rankings are based on reputational surveys completed by 266 philosophers throughout the English-speaking world (an increase of nearly 50% from 2002).
		Please give your opinion of the attractiveness of the faculty for a prospective student, taking in to account (and weighted as you deem appropriate) the quality of philosophical work and talent on the faculty, the range of areas the faculty covers, and the availability of the faculty over the next few years.
		In the next two columns the department's rank in the 2002-04 and 2001-02 Report is given (note, however, that scores were not standardized those years, though scaling, as one can see from the raw scores, has only a modest impact at the margins).
	www.philosophicalgourmet.com /overall.htm (728 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- The philosophical gourmet report
		The philosophical gourmet report ranks graduate philosophy departments throughout the English-speaking world annually, primarily on the basis of the quality of their faculty, but also taking into account the scope of individual faculty members and their availability in the short term.
		The nature of the survey, the names of those philosophers surveyed, and the method and criteria of ranking, are all fully disclosed and explained (albeit sometimes quite technically) on the site, and some guidance is supplied as to how to interpret and apply the results.
		The philosophical gourmet report has become extremely influential and many departments take its results very seriously, though some regret the extent of its influence.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=17102 (290 words)

	David Hoekema - Hoekema's Review of Wilshire - Reviewed by Brian Leiter, University of Texas, Austin - Philosophical ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The PGR itself gives substantial coverage to Continental philosophy, and the Advisory Board and evaluators for the PGR include many of the most distinguished scholars of Continental philosophy.
		Hardly any analytic philosophers are phenomenalists, and analytic philosophers hold a myriad of views about the relationship between reason and emotion, and facts and values, with many questioning these very distinctions.
		There are, to be sure, narrow-minded philosophers, with parochial views of the discipline, but being âanalyticâ philosophers simply isnât what they have in common.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1076 (858 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Reprt Says Harvard Philosophy Falls Short
		According to The Philosophical Gourmet Report, a nationwide ranking of academic philosophy departments published on the Internet by UT-Austin's Francis Professor in Law Brian R. Leiter, the keys to philosophical enlightenment no longer correspond with the keys to Harvard Yard.
		But while they have universal disregard for the survey, some agreed with Leiter both that the department had declined from its mid-20th-century prime and that it may be on the verge of a renaissance.
		Leiter began publishing the report in 1989 as an aid for undergraduates at the University of Michigan interested in applying to graduate programs in philosophy.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=104004 (1618 words)

	The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates: Philosophical Gourmet Report Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		One of the striking facts he reported was that all or almost all (Ed wasn't certain) graduate students or recently employed assistant professors who spoke at the session praised the PGR and remarked on how useful it was as a resource.
		Philosophers ought to drop them, and say, "X is the best student since Y and Z that we've had" or "X's work is comparable to the work of A and B," where A and B are employed philosophers working in that area.
		Once again, a writer in the NY Times calls the Philosophical Gourmet Report "the bible" of prospective graduate students, which is either unfair to the bible or the PGR, I'm not sure which.
	webapp.utexas.edu /blogs/archives/bleiter/cat_philosophical_gourmet_report.html (15648 words)

	THE PHILOSOPHICAL LEXICON
		Praise for a philosopher for solving a problem that was not invented until several hundred years after his death.
		A philosophical skyhook, purportedly capable of transporting one to the "standpoint of the universe".
		In the jargon of analytic philosophers, demonstrating the incoherence of a position is sometimes called blowing it to smithereens.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /lexicon (5940 words)

	AN OPEN LETTER TO STUDENTS THINKING ABOUT GRADUATE SCHOOL IN PHILOSOPHY
		The biggest complainers about the Report in my experience are those, e.g., from Harvard and Berkeley, who have rather grandiose views of their departments and contempt for the majority of high power philosophers who have a big impact on the rankings.
		Now it probably is true that the PGR has had the effect of making it clearer to non-philosophers who are administrators what professional sentiment in the discipline of philosophy is actually like, but it is hard to see how this constitutes an objection to the PGR.
		Of course, this is not to deny that those whose gradual or precipitous decline has been charted by the PGR may find it harder to make a case to their administration for support, though I've yet to hear, even indirectly, of a single case like that.
	www.utexas.edu /law/faculty/bleiter/open_letter.html (4360 words)

	The Chronicle: Articles: 09/26/1997
		The report ranks graduate programs in analytic philosophy, and is based mostly on Dr. Leiter's assessment of the quality of tenured faculty members in each program.
		The report includes a separate ranking of programs by their strengths in 25 specialties, from decision theory to philosophy of physics.
		Leiter's latest report is to be posted this week on the "Philosophical Resources Center" homepage of Blackwell Publishers (http://www.flwellpublishers.co.uk/philos/).
	chronicle.com /free/v45/i16/05a01401.htm (1133 words)

	Links
		A very well done site criticizing an excessive over-reliance upon the Philosophical Gourmet Report, critiquing both the approach taken by the report and the problems that arise from students who merely follow the Report, rather than use it as merely one source of input.
		Those wanting to know whether the PGR indeed reflects the views of the profession as a whole, or merely a notable section of it, should examine the signatories to the Letter of Concern regarding the PGR, which is at least as impressive as the list of philosophers taking part in the PGR.
		As such, of course, it has limitations in scope, and is heavily reliant upon the particular view of the individual in question, but it is a source that should certainly be consulted by anyone considering graduate study in philosophy at an American university.
	www.philosophylists.info /Links.html (776 words)

	UMass Amherst: In the Loop
		Evaluating the quality of philosophical work, talent and the range of area that the faculty covers, the survey was completed by 266 established philosophers throughout the world.
		The Philosophical Gourmet Report is a website designed to help prospective students choose the philosophy graduate program that best suits them.
		Brian Leiter, the editor of the site, teaches and writes in the areas of moral and legal philosophy, the law of evidence and continental philosophy, and is the director of the law and philosophy program at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.umass.edu /loop/print.php?articleID=8010 (261 words)

	Department of Philosophy at Northern Illinois University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The department’s M.A. program is ranked second in the nation among terminal M.A. programs in philosophy by The Philosophical Gourmet Report.
		The comprehensive examination is a particularly noteworthy strength of the program, for it ensures that all graduates have a solid foundation in all major areas of philosophy.
		The majority of graduates report that passing the comprehensive examination has given them a sense of major scholarly achievement and has provided them with a breadth of depth of knowledge necessary for success in Ph.D. programs in philosophy.
	www.niu.edu /phil/programMA/gen.shtml (651 words)

	Graduate Study in Philosophy
		The aim is to introduce students to the atmosphere of a graduate-level seminar, giving participants a chance to explore and sharpen their philosophical abilities before they commit to a graduate program.
		Up to fifteen students will be given the opportunity to interact in formal and informal settings with a group of talented graduate students and distinguished faculty members from a group of universities." The Institute will provide travel, room and board, and a $250 stipend.
		Which programs you apply to will depend on the quality of the programs, how competitive you are as a candidate, what your philosophical interests are, and where you are willing to go, geographically speaking.
	www.csun.edu /~philos33/graduate.html (2060 words)

	News
		In the Philosophical Gourmet Report for 2004-06, philosophy at ANU is ranked in the top ten programs in the world (up from around fourteenth or fifteenth in the previous edition of the Report).
		The Philosophical Gourmet Report is based on a reputational survey in which over two hundred evaluators score philosophy programs in the USA, UK, Canada and Australia.
		Other specialty areas in which philosophy at ANU is ranked strongly include epistemology; philosophical logic; decision, rational choice, and game theory; normative ethics and moral psychology; and philosophy of social science.
	philrsss.anu.edu.au /news.php3 (456 words)

	Ernie's 3D Pancakes: The Philosophical Gourmet Report
		The Report also lists major faculty moves and retirements over the last two years and (most importantly, I think) gives some absolutely brilliant advice about graduate study and how to interpret the rankings.
		Where you already have a specialized philosophical interest (...), you should certainly consider choosing a program that is weaker overall, but stronger in your specialty, than others to which you are admitted.
		This Report only measures the philosophical distinction of the faculty, not the quality of their teaching or their commitment to educating young philosophers.
	3dpancakes.typepad.com /ernie/2004/11/the_philosophic.html (448 words)

	Rutgers Media Relations - Philosophy department ties for first among graduate philosophy programs in English-speaking ...
		The report is a ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world and is edited by Brian Leiter of the University of Texas-Austin, where he is director of the law and philosophy program.
		The rankings are based on a survey of reputation completed by nearly 180 philosophers.
		Among these areas are the philosophy of language and linguistics, philosophy of mind and language, philosophy of physics, metaphysics and philosophy of art/aesthetics.
	ur.rutgers.edu /medrel/viewArticle.html?ArticleID=2758 (616 words)

	Philosophy@UDelaware
		NB: The primary aim of the Philosophical Gourmet Report by Brian Leiter (cited by Scott LaBarge at the end of his advice) is to provide a ranking of U.S. graduate programs in analytic philosophy, with some mention of programs with continental and/or feminist components.
		It is itself a philosophically interesting document in a number of areas including epistemology, the history of philosophy, and contemporary moral problems in that Prof.
		The American Philosophical Association does not approve of ranking schools, but Leiter argues that the information he provides is vital for students considering graduate school.
	www.udel.edu /Philosophy/content/students/gradschool.htm (1844 words)

	The Philosophical Gourmet Report
		If so, be sure to visit The Philosophical Gourmet Report 2000-2001, a site which bills itself as "A Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking World."
		Created and mainatined by Professor Brian Leiter, the site presents rankings of philosophy graduate programs based on "a comprehensive reputational survey of more than five dozen distinguished philosophers" regarding 60 different academic philosophy departments throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and other English-speaking countries.
		Of departments in the former category, Leiter states that they "view their task as solving certain philosophical problems, either perennial or current: What is the relationship between mind and body, or between thought and reality?
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/philosophy/65631 (283 words)

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