Finland is probably comparable to Sweden, though we don’t really have any transhumanist university programs that I’d be aware of, so that probably excludes us.
I wonder if there might be other departments than philosophy ones that might also allow you to focus on moral enhancement? E.g. possibly some psychology department doing research on moral psychology. Philosophy does seem more suitable, though.
I think I have a major bias against New Zealand. In terms of moral enhancement research it would be the second best after Oxford, it has huge human development, freedom and happiness indexes. However, the fact it is in the freaking middle of nowhere is very discouraging.
I think that this mostly matters if you are intending to travel to other countries a lot. If you do, then travel time becomes a factor, but if not, then it doesn’t necessarily matter that it takes a long time to visit any. Also, if you’re in e.g. England, then you do have a lot of other countries nearby—but if you are mostly only visiting Brazil and the USA (for example), then the fact that those other countries are nearby doesn’t matter, if you never visit them anyway.
I’m not sure of how to predict how much you will be traveling, though. I’m guessing that if there are other countries nearby, then it’s more likely that your department might be collaborating with universities from those nearby countries. I’m under the impression that academic conferences aren’t very important in philosophy? If you were going for a field where they were, it could be worth looking at where the major conferences were usually held.
I guess that being in a remote location might also be reflected in the local price level (with stuff that needs to be imported being more expensive), but if you care about that it’d be better to just do price level comparisons directly.
Finland is probably comparable to Sweden, though we don’t really have any transhumanist university programs that I’d be aware of, so that probably excludes us.
I think our universities suck, internationally speaking and compared to Sweden, don’t they? At least in the philosophy department they probably do.
Finland would be a huge leap upwards from Brazil, though.
The University of Helsinki generally hovers around the position of the 70th best university in the world in the Shanghai Ranking and the QS World University Rankings, and around the 100th position in the Times Higher Education Ranking. It’s the only Finnish university to make the top 100; of Swedish universities, Karolinska Institutet (Shanghai: 40-50, QS: -, Times: 36), Lund University (Shanghai: 90-100+, QS: ~70, Times: 123), Stockholm University (Shanghai: ~80, QS: -, Times: 103), and Uppsala University (Shanghai: ~70, QS: ~70, Times: 111) make the lists.
Only QS offers the option to filter universities specifically by their ranking in the field of philosophy: in the 2013 rankings, Stockholm University is the only Swedish university to make the top 200 list: it’s ranked as being in the 50-100 range. Out of Finnish universities, the University of Helsinki is tied with Stockholm University in the 50-100 position, and the University of Turku makes it to the 101-150 position.
Whether any of these ranking lists actually tells anything useful is another question, of course.
Finland is probably comparable to Sweden, though we don’t really have any transhumanist university programs that I’d be aware of, so that probably excludes us.
I wonder if there might be other departments than philosophy ones that might also allow you to focus on moral enhancement? E.g. possibly some psychology department doing research on moral psychology. Philosophy does seem more suitable, though.
I think that this mostly matters if you are intending to travel to other countries a lot. If you do, then travel time becomes a factor, but if not, then it doesn’t necessarily matter that it takes a long time to visit any. Also, if you’re in e.g. England, then you do have a lot of other countries nearby—but if you are mostly only visiting Brazil and the USA (for example), then the fact that those other countries are nearby doesn’t matter, if you never visit them anyway.
I’m not sure of how to predict how much you will be traveling, though. I’m guessing that if there are other countries nearby, then it’s more likely that your department might be collaborating with universities from those nearby countries. I’m under the impression that academic conferences aren’t very important in philosophy? If you were going for a field where they were, it could be worth looking at where the major conferences were usually held.
I guess that being in a remote location might also be reflected in the local price level (with stuff that needs to be imported being more expensive), but if you care about that it’d be better to just do price level comparisons directly.
I think our universities suck, internationally speaking and compared to Sweden, don’t they? At least in the philosophy department they probably do.
Finland would be a huge leap upwards from Brazil, though.
The University of Helsinki generally hovers around the position of the 70th best university in the world in the Shanghai Ranking and the QS World University Rankings, and around the 100th position in the Times Higher Education Ranking. It’s the only Finnish university to make the top 100; of Swedish universities, Karolinska Institutet (Shanghai: 40-50, QS: -, Times: 36), Lund University (Shanghai: 90-100+, QS: ~70, Times: 123), Stockholm University (Shanghai: ~80, QS: -, Times: 103), and Uppsala University (Shanghai: ~70, QS: ~70, Times: 111) make the lists.
Only QS offers the option to filter universities specifically by their ranking in the field of philosophy: in the 2013 rankings, Stockholm University is the only Swedish university to make the top 200 list: it’s ranked as being in the 50-100 range. Out of Finnish universities, the University of Helsinki is tied with Stockholm University in the 50-100 position, and the University of Turku makes it to the 101-150 position.
Whether any of these ranking lists actually tells anything useful is another question, of course.