[4] PGR was described by David L. Kirp in a 2003 New York Times op-ed as "the bible for prospective [philosophy] graduate students.
"[5] Carlin Romano, in America the Philosophical (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013), referred to the PGR rankings as "often-criticized" and "biased towards mainstream analytic departments".
The petition was organized by some philosophers at the University of British Columbia to protest what they called a "derogatory and intimidating" e-mail sent by Leiter to one of their colleagues.
[4] In response, Leiter appointed Berit Brogaard, a philosophy professor at the University of Miami, as co-editor for the 2014 report and agreed to step down as editor of subsequent editions.
[8] Leiter subsequently appointed Christopher Pynes of Western Illinois University as co-editor of future editions.