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  • There are two conferences upcoming in Edinburgh in early July, one on “The Metaphysics of Consciousness”:http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/metaphysicsofconsciousness/index.html and a grad conference on “The Metaphysics of Mind”:http://www.philosophy.ed.ac.uk/events/MetaphysicsPGConf.html. Students who are going to be in eastern Scotland for the “Arche Summer School”:http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~arche/events/event?id=181 might be particularly interested in these conferences.
  • There is a new group blog for metaphysics, called “Matters of Substance”:http://substantialmatters.blogspot.com/, that looks worth bookmarking/subscribing to.
  • As you may have noticed, the new “Philosophical Gourmet Report”:http://www.philosophicalgourmet.com/ is out. As usual, I would quibble somewhat with how my department is rated. (We’re only group 3 in philosophy of physics?!) But I think the following is a pretty good guide to how broad Rutgers is. I think people often overlook, for instance, how strong Rutgers is in central areas of history of philosophy.

Rutgers Specialty Rankings
Philosophy of Language: Group 1 (1) (mean of 5.0)
Epistemology: Group 1 (1-2) (mean of 5.0)
Philosophy of Cognitive Science: Group 1 (1) (mean of 4.5)
Philosophy of Mind: Group 1 (1-3) (mean of 4.5)

Metaphysics: Group 2 (2-4) (mean of 4.5)
Early Modern Philosophy: 17th-Century: Group 2 (2-9) (mean of 4.0)
General Philosophy of Science: Group 2 (2-11) (mean of 4.0)
Applied Ethics: Group 2 (3-7) (mean of 4.0)
Philosophy of Art: Group 2 (4-16) (mean of 4.0)

Ethics: Group 3 (6-12) (mean of 4.0)
Decision, Rational Choice & Game Theory: Group 3 (5-9) (mean of 3.5)
Philosophy of Law : Group 3 (6-13) (mean of 3.5)
Philosophy of Physics: Group 3 (6-13) (mean of 3.5)
Philosophy of Social Science: Group 3 (6-13) (mean of 3.5)
Political Philosophy: Group 3 (10-22) (mean of 3.5)

Ancient Philosophy: Group 4 (8-12) (mean of 3.5)
Early Modern Philosophy: 18th-Century: Group 4 (11-33) (mean of 3.0)
Metaethics: Group 4 (16-35) (mean of 3.0)

Philosophical Logic: Group 5 (22-50) (mean of 3.0)