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Researcher · University of Calgary · Canada

Thomas Hurka

Thomas Hurka publishes mostly in Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations and Cognitive Neuroscience, on topics such as Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Political Philosophy and Ethics and Free Will and Agency.

ORCID 0000-0002-2883-5101 OpenAlex
World rank
#104,254
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#3,309
of 183,316
Works
161
Citations
3.9k
Citations per work
24.1
h-index
34
i10-index 56Top 1.1% in Philosophy
Thomas Hurka

What does Thomas Hurka research?

Thomas Hurka's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (39%), Social Sciences (28%), Neuroscience (11%).

Social Sciences: 114 works · 70.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 63 works · 38.9% of their workPhilosophy: 63 works · 38.9% of their workSocial Sciences: 45 works · 28.2% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 29 works · 18.3% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 9.9% of their workPsychology: 6 works · 3.7% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 6 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 12.3% of their workLife Sciences: 17 works · 10.7% of their workNeuroscience: 17 works · 10.7% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 17 works · 10.7% of their workHealth Sciences: 10 works · 6.2% of their workHealth Professions: 10 works · 6.2% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 10 works · 6.2% of their workTHEIR WORKThomas Hurka161works
Life Sciences11%Health Sciences6%Social Sciences71%

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 Humanities6338.9%
    2. Social Sciences4528.2%
    3. Psychology63.7%
  2. Everything else2012.3%
    1. Neuroscience1710.7%
    1. Health Professions106.2%
  1. 1Philosophy39% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations18% of their works
  3. 3Cognitive Neuroscience11% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5General Health Professions6% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Thomas Hurka's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Ethics, Moral Realism, Virtue Ethics, Responsibility, Perception, Truth, Global Justice and Human Rights.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Ethics862 topics
  2. Moral Realism701 topic
  3. Virtue Ethics701 topic
  4. Responsibility492 topics
  5. Perception442 topics
  6. Truth442 topics
  7. Global Justice431 topic
  8. Human Rights431 topic
  9. Sense of Agency331 topic
  10. Voluntary Action331 topic
  11. Belief311 topic
  12. Knowledge311 topic
  13. Ethical Climate211 topic
  14. Moral Distress211 topic
  15. Just War Theory161 topic
  16. Self-Defense161 topic
  17. Consciousness131 topic
  18. Phenomenal Experience131 topic
  19. Problem of Evil81 topic
  20. Theodicy81 topic

Where does Thomas Hurka work?

Thomas Hurka's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Calgary, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Thomas Hurka have?

OpenAlex counts 161 works and 3,880 citations for Thomas Hurka, an h-index of 34, ranking #104,254 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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