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Researcher · University of California, Berkeley · United States

John MacFarlane

John MacFarlane publishes mostly in Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics and Philosophy and History of Science.

ORCID 0000-0003-2557-9090 OpenAlex
World rank
#237,239
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#87,441
of 1,627,098
Works
64
Citations
5.6k
Citations per work
87.2
h-index
24
i10-index 28Top 2.9% in Philosophy
John MacFarlane

What does John MacFarlane research?

John MacFarlane's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (52%), Psychology (21%), Computer Science (9%).

Social Sciences: 49 works · 76.5% of their workArts and Humanities: 33 works · 51.7% of their workPhilosophy: 22 works · 34.9% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 8 works · 12.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 3 works · 4.7% of their workPsychology: 13 works · 20.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 13 works · 20.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 3 works · 4.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 4.0% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 14.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 6 works · 9.4% of their workComputer Science: 6 works · 9.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 6 works · 9.4% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn MacFarlane64works
Physical Sciences9%Social Sciences76%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Arts and Humanities3351.7%
    2. Psychology1320.8%
    3. Social Sciences34.0%
  2. Everything else914.1%
    1. Computer Science69.4%
  1. 1Philosophy35% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology21% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science12% of their works
  4. 4Artificial Intelligence9% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John MacFarlane's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Modal Logic, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Belief, Knowledge and Philosophy of Science.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Perception552 topics
  2. Truth552 topics
  3. Modal Logic412 topics
  4. Consciousness301 topic
  5. Phenomenal Experience301 topic
  6. Belief251 topic
  7. Knowledge251 topic
  8. Philosophy of Science182 topics
  9. Metaphysics162 topics
  10. Evolutionary Synthesis141 topic
  11. Mechanistic Explanation141 topic
  12. Aristotle121 topic
  13. Plato121 topic
  14. Answer Set Programming111 topic
  15. Knowledge Representation111 topic
  16. Ethics51 topic
  17. Moral Realism51 topic
  18. Logical Empiricism41 topic
  19. Vienna Circle41 topic
  20. Bayesian Networks31 topic
  21. Causal Inference31 topic

Where does John MacFarlane work?

John MacFarlane's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Berkeley, United States.

How many publications and citations does John MacFarlane have?

OpenAlex counts 64 works and 5,582 citations for John MacFarlane, an h-index of 24, ranking #237,239 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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