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Michael Devitt

Michael Devitt publishes mostly in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics and Philosophy and History of Science.

World rank
#248,192
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#97,094
of 358,040
Works
49
Citations
168
Citations per work
3.4

What does Michael Devitt research?

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 27.0%Philosophy: 24.3%Language and Linguistics: 18.9%History and Philosophy of Science: 8.1%other fields: 21.7%27%top field
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology27.0%Philosophy24.3%Language and Linguistics18.9%History and Philosophy of Science8.1%other fields21.7%

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

  1. 1Experimental and Cognitive Psychology27% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy24% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics19% of their works
  4. 4History and Philosophy of Science8% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science5% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Devitt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Perception, Truth, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Phenomenal Experience, Belief, Knowledge and Evolutionary Synthesis.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Perception262 topics
  2. Truth262 topics
  3. Cognitive Science202 topics
  4. Consciousness151 topic
  5. Phenomenal Experience151 topic
  6. Belief111 topic
  7. Knowledge111 topic
  8. Evolutionary Synthesis51 topic
  9. Mechanistic Explanation51 topic
  10. Metaphor51 topic
  11. Time51 topic
  12. Language Teaching41 topic
  13. Linguistic Historiography41 topic
  14. Semantics41 topic
  15. Syntax41 topic
  16. Discourse Analysis31 topic
  17. Language Variation31 topic
  18. Ethics21 topic
  19. Moral Realism21 topic

Where does Michael Devitt work?

Michael Devitt's main affiliation in the publication record is The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States.

How many publications and citations does Michael Devitt have?

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 168 citations for Michael Devitt, ranking #248,192 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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