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John McDowell

John McDowell 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.

World rank
#11,109
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#5,347
of 358,040
Works
57
Citations
397
Citations per work
7.0

What does John McDowell research?

Philosophy: 27.1%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 12.5%History and Philosophy of Science: 8.3%Sociology and Political Science: 6.3%other fields: 45.8%27%top field
Philosophy27.1%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology12.5%History and Philosophy of Science8.3%Sociology and Political Science6.3%other fields45.8%

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

  1. 1Philosophy27% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology12% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science8% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Cognitive Neuroscience6% of their works
  6. 6Periodontics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John McDowell's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Belief, Ethics, Knowledge and Aristotle.

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. Perception102 topics
  2. Truth102 topics
  3. Consciousness61 topic
  4. Phenomenal Experience61 topic
  5. Belief41 topic
  6. Ethics42 topics
  7. Knowledge41 topic
  8. Aristotle31 topic
  9. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  10. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  11. Plato31 topic
  12. Moral Realism21 topic
  13. Philosophy21 topic
  14. Social Cognition22 topics
  15. Virtue Ethics21 topic
  16. Wittgenstein21 topic
  17. Dog Domestication11 topic
  18. Embodied Cognition11 topic
  19. Genomic Analysis11 topic
  20. Predictive Brain Theory11 topic

Where does John McDowell work?

John McDowell's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Pittsburgh, United States.

How many publications and citations does John McDowell have?

Science Explorer counts 57 works and 397 citations for John McDowell, ranking #11,109 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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