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...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. He first posted it on the Internet four years ago after which, according to the website, "the use and influence of the report has exploded: last year, the Report recorded an average of 5,000 hits per month...
...Leiter produces his rankings by sending out surveys to philosophy professors around the country asking them to rate a long list of departments from one (lowest) to five (highest), taking the average score for each department, and adding 0.2 to the scores of smaller departments which by virtue of their size are less likely to have faculty that colleagues at other schools may recognize. The current report is based on survey data from 63 respondents...
...Leiter's website concedes that the report has "attracted its share of critics...
...stock in Harvard being ranked number six by Leiter," echoed Frederick W. Neuhouser, a former Harvard junior faculty member who was denied tenure by the University in 1995 and now holds a tenured position in Cornell's philosophy department. "Harvard is clearly in the top five American philosophy departments...
...Harvard's philosophy professors frown on Leiter's methodology and conclusions, they do not dispute that the department does not hold the position of primacy it has in the past and that Leiter's assessment that the department is "now more stable" is valid...