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PHIL 2264

Logic · 12 instructors on record · 28 sections

How the curve score is built

74Teaching85 raw · 40th percentile of BC classes

+2Easiness adjustmenteasiness 84 · 43 raw workload · lighter than 73% of BC classes

76Curve scorethe teaching curve +2 for the workload · at most ±6 either way

Boston College's ratings are bunched at the top — the median instructor averages about 88 out of 100 on the raw scale, and 44% of them clear 90 — so a raw score cannot separate anybody. Every figure here is ranked against BC classes and that rank is re-expressed out of 100, which is what turns a raw 88 — the middle of the university — into a figure that says where somebody actually stands. On this scale 77 is the median, 84 the top quarter and 91 the top tenth. Workload is then an adjustment on top of that, worth nothing at all for an ordinary one. Lighter work than 73% of BC classes.

What the course score is made of

85BC evaluations28 records · weight ×1.0 · Fall 2021 – Spring 2026

—Student reviewsno reviews — does not contribute

—RateMyProfessorsno ratings — does not contribute

The class itself, averaged across everyone who taught it — who taught it is the board below.

How is this worked out?

That is what a student picking a section is actually choosing between: the board carries each instructor's own score for this class, and the score above is the class averaged across all of them.

What the challenge rank is made of

51stMore challenging than 51% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

91BC — “Intellectually Challenging”28 records · raw score out of 100

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question. It is not a measure of difficulty, grading or workload.

How is this worked out?

Boston College's own “intellectually challenging” question for this class only — students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it measures intellectual challenge and NOT grading, workload or quality. Almost every BC class scores high on it, which is why it is shown as a rank rather than a score.

What the workload rank is made of

27thMore work than 27% of BC classesranked against every one we hold

43BC — “Workload”28 records · raw score out of 100

One of Boston College's five workload bands, not a number of hours. Higher means more work, not worse.

How is this worked out?

Boston College reports workload for this class only as one of five bands, not as a number of hours, and it does not publish what the bands mean — so this site will not translate it into hours. Higher means more work, which is not the same as worse.

This course will consider the principles of correct reasoning together with their application to concrete cases.

The board

12 instructors · ranked on this class onlyCompare the top 3

Find an instructor among the 12Filters the rows below. Positions are always against the whole class, so a rank does not change when the list is narrowed.

Scores are real averages. The order also accounts for how many records back each one — the count is under every score — so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. 1 of the 12 rows carry a mark saying so.

Rank	Instructor	Curve	Easiness	Challenge	RMP overall
1	Nicholas WestbergPhilosophy Provisional	9698 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	51st	—no page
2	Anna BoessenkoolPhilosophy Provisional	9597 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	60th	1005 ratings · all classes
3	Laura SanterPhilosophy Provisional	9296 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	52nd	—no page
4	Robert McQueenPhilosophy Provisional	8995 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	52nd	—no page
5	Jared HighlenPhilosophy	8291 raw · 4 records	84+2 to the score	34th	908 ratings · all classes
6	Tyler VialePhilosophy Provisional	7891 raw · 1 record	68−2 to the score	58th	—no page
7	Daniel MaryanovichPhilosophy	7786 raw · 3 records	84+2 to the score	51st	902 ratings · all classes
8	William WatkinsPhilosophy Provisional fewer records	7486 raw · 1 record	—	90th	—no page
9	James KinkaidPhilosophy	7586 raw · 5 records	77±0 to the score	58th	—no page
10	Maxwell WadePhilosophy Provisional	7281 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	32nd	—no page
11	Jun Hee HanPhilosophy Provisional	7181 raw · 2 records	84+2 to the score	29th	—no page
12	Elliott RischPhilosophy Provisional	6068 raw · 2 records	—	65th	—no page

All 12 instructors listed.

9 of 12 rows are marked provisional: fewer than 3 records stand behind the number. That is thin evidence, not a bad instructor — the record count is in every row. The RateMyProfessors column is an instructor's overall figure across everything they teach, not a figure about this class.

How this board is built and ordered

Positions account for how many records stand behind each number, so one perfect review does not outrank a semester of them. Every score shown is the real average — only the ordering is adjusted. The comparison here is the class itself: a thin record is read against how this class was rated overall, not against the university.

Every instructor with an evaluation record for this class is on this board — it is not a top ten, and nothing is hidden behind a “show more”. Curve is the instructor's score for THIS class only, ranked against every instructor we hold and printed back out of 100, with the raw BC average underneath it; nothing on this board is an average across the other things they teach. Easiness is an adjustment on top of it, worth up to about ±6 — BC's workload item, ranked and turned over, so a lighter section gains and a heavier one loses, while an ordinary one changes nothing — and each row prints the adjustment, signed. The board is ordered on the same figure it prints, adjusted for how many records back it. Challenge is BC's “intellectually challenging” item shown as a rank against every class we hold; students answer it positively about courses that stretched them, so it is not a measure of difficulty or grading, and it is never marked better or worse.

That site has no course dimension, so its figure is shown for information and kept out of the ranking.

The line

All 13 items · means across 28 records

Instructor4

Course3

Feedback3

Workload & Challengenot ratings

Bars are ranks, not raw scores. Nothing here is graded good or bad.

What each item asks

Explains Clearly: The instructor was effective at creating an understanding of difficult subject matter.
Available: The instructor was available for help outside of class.
Motivating: The instructor motivated me to do my best work.
Sparks Interest: The course stimulated my interest in the subject matter.
Organized: The course was well organized.
Clear Goals: The learning objectives for the course were clear.
Useful Later: What I learned is applicable beyond this course.
Assignments: Assignments and exams contributed to my learning.
Fast Feedback: I received feedback on my work in a timely manner.
Useful Feedback: The feedback I received on my work was meaningful.
Workload: How much work the course took outside class, on Boston College's five-band scale — the band boundaries are not published, so this is not a number of hours.
Challenge: The course was intellectually challenging.
Attendance: Attending class was necessary to do well in this course.

Why these numbers are curved

Both the number and the bar are the rank against every comparable record we hold, printed back out of 100. BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so on the raw scale every cell here would read in the high eighties and every bar would be nearly full — thirteen numbers that tell you nothing. Each cell prints its raw BC figure and its percentile underneath, so nothing is hidden by the transform. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.

Game log

28 sections · newest first

Instructor	Term	Sec	Instr	Course	Work
Jun Hee Han	Spring 2026	01	77	72	40
Laura Santer	Spring 2026	02	99	94	40
Robert McQueen	Spring 2026	03	94	91	40
Jun Hee Han	Fall 2025	01	85	82	40
Laura Santer	Fall 2025	02	93	88	40
Robert McQueen	Fall 2025	03	95	94	40
William Watkins	Spring 2025	01	86	81	—
Daniel Maryanovich	Spring 2025	02	88	89	40
Jared Highlen	Spring 2025	03	90	85	40
Daniel Maryanovich	Fall 2024	02	85	85	40
Jared Highlen	Fall 2024	03	95	90	40
Anna Boessenkool	Spring 2024	01	94	91	40
Daniel Maryanovich	Spring 2024	02	87	85	40
Jared Highlen	Spring 2024	03	89	85	40
Anna Boessenkool	Fall 2023	01	100	95	—
Jared Highlen	Fall 2023	03	89	89	—
Maxwell Wade	Spring 2023	01	83	87	40
James Kinkaid	Spring 2023	02	83	76	40
Nicholas Westberg	Spring 2023	03	97	93	40
Maxwell Wade	Fall 2022	01	79	78	40
James Kinkaid	Fall 2022	02	87	83	60
Nicholas Westberg	Fall 2022	03	99	97	40
Elliott Risch	Spring 2022	01	56	49	—
James Kinkaid	Spring 2022	02	85	77	60
James Kinkaid	Spring 2022	03	89	88	40

Showing the first 25.

How to read this board

Instructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.