Anyone looking forward to the (full) new PGR?

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16 minutes ago, Cogitodoncrien said:

I will say that Michael Friedman is giving good reasons for reconsidering logical positivism.  In particular, I think that Carnap is sort of overlooked these days.

There's been a sub-field dedicated to reviving Carnap though, via the so-called neo-Carnapians (Amie Thomasson, Matti Eklund, Eli Hirsch, to some extent Tim Button and Huw Price as well). Of course, Friedman has also been working on this since the 80s or 90s. 

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4 hours ago, Stencil said:

Sven Bernecker works on German idealism, and David Woofruff Smith works on Husserl and phenomenology. Admittedly, I don't know much about how continental philosophy is studied today, but don't both of those qualify as continental philosophy, the latter being 20th century continental philosophy? Also, another factor which may impact their ranking is that Martin Schwab is a professor emeritus there, and his primary research interest is 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. I don't doubt that the PGR rankings for continental philosophy are not entirely accurate, but it's not like they just picked names out of a hat in order to determine those rankings.

It's a very important part of philosophy, but last I checked, German Idealism isn't 20th philosophy. As for Husserl, it could qualify as 'continental' 20th century, but David Smith's approach is markedly analytic. Indeed, he's written papers about phenomenology and phil of mind, and the relationship between phenomenology and analytic philosophy. Even if we accept him as interested in continental philosophy, even though Husserl is one of his interests amongst others, that's still one member of faculty. There's good departments not ranked on there that have over half the faculty working on 20th European philosophy.