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Researcher · St. John's College · United States

Peter M. S. Hacker

Peter M. S. Hacker publishes mostly in Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, on topics such as Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications, Philosophy and Theoretical Science and Classical Philosophy and Thought.

OpenAlex
World rank
#84,977
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#32,821
of 1,627,098
Works
318
Citations
9.2k
Citations per work
29.0
h-index
42
i10-index 104Top 0.5% in Philosophy
Peter M. S. Hacker

What does Peter M. S. Hacker research?

Peter M. S. Hacker's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (51%), Psychology (16%), Neuroscience (7%).

Social Sciences: 214 works · 67.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 163 works · 51.4% of their workPhilosophy: 129 works · 40.7% of their workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 22 works · 7.0% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 12 works · 3.7% of their workPsychology: 51 works · 16.0% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 42 works · 13.1% of their workSocial Psychology: 9 works · 2.9% of their workEverything else: 82 works · 25.8% of their workLife Sciences: 22 works · 6.8% of their workNeuroscience: 22 works · 6.8% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 22 works · 6.8% of their workTHEIR WORKPeter M. S.Hacker318works
Life Sciences7%Social Sciences67%

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 Humanities16351.4%
    2. Psychology5116.0%
  2. Everything else8225.8%
    1. Neuroscience226.8%
  1. 1Philosophy41% of their works
  2. 2Experimental and Cognitive Psychology13% of their works
  3. 3History and Philosophy of Science7% of their works
  4. 4Cognitive Neuroscience7% of their works
  5. 5Language and Linguistics4% of their works
  6. 6Social Psychology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter M. S. Hacker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Philosophy, Education, Language-Games, Wittgenstein, Truth, Perception, Metaphysics and Consciousness.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Philosophy1123 topics
  2. Education1012 topics
  3. Language-Games911 topic
  4. Wittgenstein911 topic
  5. Truth753 topics
  6. Perception652 topics
  7. Metaphysics482 topics
  8. Consciousness471 topic
  9. Phenomenal Experience471 topic
  10. Aristotle462 topics
  11. Plato351 topic
  12. Stoicism351 topic
  13. Pragmatism232 topics
  14. Belief181 topic
  15. Knowledge181 topic
  16. Logical Empiricism131 topic
  17. Vienna Circle131 topic
  18. Language Teaching121 topic
  19. Linguistic Historiography121 topic
  20. Natural Philosophy111 topic
  21. Scientific Culture111 topic
  22. Dewey101 topic
  23. Peirce101 topic

Where does Peter M. S. Hacker work?

Peter M. S. Hacker's main affiliation in the publication record is St. John's College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter M. S. Hacker have?

OpenAlex counts 318 works and 9,221 citations for Peter M. S. Hacker, an h-index of 42, ranking #84,977 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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