vimalakirti

I disagree with your characterization of Bruya's article as containing "manufactured data from nowhere." Leiter and his allies are attempting to nitpick to death Brian Bruya's very compelling argument that the PGR's extreme sampling bias means its program rankings are unreliable. Here is Brian Bruya's response to Leiter's criticism of his article: http://dailynous.com/2015/12/15/appearance-and-reality-take-2/ For those of you who want to reach your own conclusions, here's the link Bruya's original article, published in the journal Metaphilosophy: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/meta.12161/abstract

Has anyone heard about this new Terminal MA Program at Stony Brook University, "History of Philosophies East and West?" http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/hpew/ I am interested in 19th century German philosophy as well as some Hinduism and Buddhism. What kind of PhD programs would someone with a Stony Brook terminal MA be able competitive to apply to?

A bigger problem than his focus on the US is the "snowball sampling" method that Leiter uses to choose top programs. There's a new critique of his rankings on daily nous: http://dailynous.com/2015/12/14/a-detailed-critique-of-the-philosophical-gourmet-report/