Topic · Classical Philosophy and Thought
Most cited papers in Classical Philosophy and Thought
What are the most cited papers in Classical Philosophy and Thought?
The most cited paper in Classical Philosophy and Thought is "Relevance: Communication and Cognition" (Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson, 1986), with 6,071 citations. Next come "The self system in reciprocal determinism." (2,110) and "TRUTH AND OTHER ENIGMAS" (1,913).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 272 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Relevance: Communication and Cognition Dan Sperber, Deirdre Wilson | 6 Mar 1986 | 6,071 |
| 2 | The self system in reciprocal determinism. Albert Bandura · American Psychologist | Apr 1978 | 2,110 |
| 3 | TRUTH AND OTHER ENIGMAS C. J. F. Williams · Philosophical Books | Oct 1979 | 1,913 |
| 4 | The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason R. Jay Wallace · Philosophical Books | Oct 1988 | 1,521 |
| 5 | Strategies for Change: Logical Incrementalism Joseph E. McCann, James Brian Quinn · Academy of Management Review | Apr 1982 | 1,470 |
| 6 | What ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean Angelika Kratzer · Linguistics and Philosophy | 1977 | 1,212 |
| 7 | Content and Consciousness. N. J. H. Dent, Daniel C. Dennett · The Philosophical Quarterly | Oct 1970 | 1,140 |
| 8 | The Skeptic and the Dogmatist James Pryor · Noûs | Dec 2000 | 1,125 |
| 9 | Realism, anti-foundationalism and the enthusiasm for natural kinds R. N. Boyd · Philosophical Studies | Feb 1991 | 1,086 |
| 10 | Skepticism about Practical Reason Christine M. Korsgaard · The Journal of Philosophy | 1986 | 1,035 |
| 11 | Two concepts of consciousness DAVID M. ROSENTHAL · Philosophical Studies | May 1986 | 1,011 |
| 12 | Reconstruction in Philosophy. W. M. Sibley, John Dewey · The Philosophical Review | Apr 1950 | 943 |
| 13 | Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong Kent Bach, Jerry A. Fodor · The Philosophical Review | Oct 2000 | 939 |
| 14 | The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy Martha C. Nussbaum · eYLS (Yale Law School) | 1987 | 931 |
| 15 | Interpretation and the Sciences of Man Charles Taylor | 1973 | 869 |
| 16 | A solution to Plato's problem: The latent semantic analysis theory of acquisition, induction, and representation of knowledge. Thomas K. Landauer, Susan Dumais · Psychological Review | 1997 | 859 |
| 17 | Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 18 Apr 1996 | 827 |
| 18 | Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy Uri Nodelman, Colin Allen, Edward N. Zalta · Proceedings of the second ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries - JCDL '02 | 2002 | 801 |
| 19 | PRACTICAL REASON AND NORMS R. G. Frey · Philosophical Books | Oct 1976 | 790 |
| 20 | THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE CONTINUUM HYPOTHESIS Paul J. Cohen · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Dec 1963 | 736 |
| 21 | More About Metaphor Max Black · dialectica | 1977 | 728 |
| 22 | Why Be Rational? Niko Kolodny · Mind | Jul 2005 | 677 |
| 23 | Further Notes on Logic and Conversation H. P. Grice · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 5 May 2008 | 662 |
| 24 | Bayesian Rationality: The Probabilistic Approach to Human Reasoning Mike Oaksford, Nick Chater | 2007 | 658 |
| 25 | Events as Property Exemplifications Jaegwon Kim | 1976 | 623 |
| 26 | Tacit Knowing: Its Bearing on Some Problems of Philosophy Michael F. D. Polanyi · Reviews of Modern Physics | Oct 1962 | 611 |
| 27 | Wonders and the order of nature Roy S. Porter · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences | 26 Apr 1999 | 604 |
| 28 | The Philosophy Of Symbolic Forms Deniz Coskun · Law and philosophy library | 17 Jul 2007 | 596 |
| 29 | The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason Mark Henry Johnson · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1989 | 558 |
| 30 | Essays on Aristotle's De Anima. David W. Hamlyn, Martha C. Nussbaum, Amélie Oksenberg Rorty · The Philosophical Quarterly | Oct 1993 | 552 |
| 31 | Am I Thinking Assemblies? C. von der Malsburg | 1986 | 550 |
| 32 | The Philosophy of Philosophy Luis S. Robledo · Disputatio | Nov 2008 | 529 |
| 33 | Principles of Philosophy Rene Descartes · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 20 May 1985 | 529 |
| 34 | The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters Catherine D. Rau, Edith Hamilton, Huntington Cairns · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | 1962 | 526 |
| 35 | The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy Isaac Newton, Alan E. Shapiro · Physics Today | Mar 2000 | 510 |
| 36 | The teleological notion of ‘function’ Karen Neander · Australasian Journal of Philosophy | Dec 1991 | 506 |
| 37 | Internal and External Reasons Bernard Williams · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 5 May 2008 | 482 |
| 38 | The Instrumental Method in Psychology Robert W. Rieber, Jeffrey Wollock | 1997 | 482 |
| 39 | Socrates in Hellenistic Philosophy A. A. Long · The Classical Quarterly | 1988 | 468 |
| 40 | The presocratic philosophers a critical history with a selection of texts G. S. Kirk, J. E. Raven, Malcolm B. Schofield | 1983 | 467 |
| 41 | A logical analysis of some value concepts Frederic Brenton Fitch · Journal of Symbolic Logic | Jun 1963 | 465 |
| 42 | Causal Models: How People Think About the World and Its Alternatives Steven A. Sloman | 17 Apr 2009 | 462 |
| 43 | Evidentialism Richard H. Feldman, Earl Conee · Philosophical Studies | Jul 1985 | 455 |
| 44 | Causal and Metaphysical Necessity Sydney Shoemaker · Pacific philosophical quarterly | Mar 1998 | 438 |
| 45 | Rational Interaction as the Basis for Communication Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque · The MIT Press eBooks | 28 Jun 1990 | 429 |
| 46 | The Phenomenological Mind: An Introduction to Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science Amedeo Giorgi · Journal of Phenomenological Psychology | 2009 | 419 |
| 47 | The Nature of Physical Reality Henry Margenau, R. Bruce Lindsay · American Journal of Physics | 1951 | 419 |
| 48 | Rethinking classical theory Rogers Brubaker · Theory and Society | Nov 1985 | 418 |
| 49 | Consciousness explained Joseph O’Rourke · Artificial Intelligence | Apr 1993 | 412 |
| 50 | The Elements of Moral Philosophy R. S. Downie · Philosophical Books | Jul 1987 | 409 |
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