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Category: ADPA job placement data
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This is just a quick note that Carolyn Dicey Jennings has the following post up at the ADPA blog: Academic Philosophy Data and Analysis, a long running project that collects and analyzes data on graduate experience and employment outcomes for philosophy PhDs, is seeking to expand its leadership. We aim to expand from 1 to…
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By Sam Duncan The thing I object to most strongly in rankings is that I think they all have value judgments baked in and that by using them one is accepting those judgments without thinking about or taking responsibility for a value judgment. Now I won’t lie, I find the values baked into the PGR…
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By Sam Duncan As I said in my last post I think the APDA is a much better place for those considering graduate school in philosophy to start than is the PGR, but I think using the APDA as a ranking would be a bad idea and I hope Jennings and others involved will never…
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By Sam Duncan I believe rankings in general are harmful to higher education and that potential graduate students in philosophy are making a huge mistake if they rely primarily on the Philosophical Gourmet Report to choose a program. But I’ve been thinking about a challenge posed by Shen-yi Liao’s comment on a post about ranking…