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Researcher · University of Oxford · United Kingdom

Bernard Williams

Bernard Williams publishes mostly in Philosophy, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics and Free Will and Agency.

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World rank
#2,529
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#201
of 90,785
Works
81
Citations
773
Citations per work
9.5

What does Bernard Williams research?

Philosophy: 36.1%Cognitive Neuroscience: 8.2%Sociology and Political Science: 4.9%Music: 4.9%other fields: 45.9%36%top field
Philosophy36.1%Cognitive Neuroscience8.2%Sociology and Political Science4.9%Music4.9%other fields45.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Philosophy36% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience8% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  4. 4Music5% of their works
  5. 5Education5% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Bernard Williams's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Moral Realism, Virtue Ethics, Perception, Responsibility, Truth, Belief and Knowledge.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethics144 topics
  2. Moral Realism71 topic
  3. Virtue Ethics71 topic
  4. Perception62 topics
  5. Responsibility62 topics
  6. Truth62 topics
  7. Belief41 topic
  8. Knowledge41 topic
  9. Just War Theory31 topic
  10. Self-Defense31 topic
  11. Sense of Agency31 topic
  12. Voluntary Action31 topic
  13. Aristotle21 topic
  14. Consciousness21 topic
  15. Hugo Grotius21 topic
  16. Phenomenal Experience21 topic
  17. Philosophy21 topic
  18. Plato21 topic
  19. Thomas Hobbes21 topic
  20. Wittgenstein21 topic

Where does Bernard Williams work?

Bernard Williams's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Bernard Williams have?

Science Explorer counts 81 works and 773 citations for Bernard Williams, ranking #2,529 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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