Most cited papers in Historical Philosophy and Science
What are the most cited papers in Historical Philosophy and Science?
The most cited paper in Historical Philosophy and Science is "Episodic Memory and Autonoesis: Uniquely Human?" (Endel Tulving, 2005), with 994 citations. Next come "Historical Development of the Newton–Raphson Method" (941) and "History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions" (780).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 128 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episodic Memory and Autonoesis: Uniquely Human? Endel Tulving · Oxford University Press eBooks | 10 Feb 2005 | 994 |
| 2 | Historical Development of the Newton–Raphson Method Tjalling J. Ypma · SIAM Review | Dec 1995 | 941 |
| 3 | History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions Imre Lakatos · PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association | 1970 | 780 |
| 4 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society William P. D. Wightman · Nature | Oct 1961 | 626 |
| 5 | Wonders and the order of nature Roy S. Porter · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences | 26 Apr 1999 | 604 |
| 6 | Preliminary Communication Horst Bickel, JOHN W. GERRARD, EvelynM. Hickmans · The Lancet | Oct 1953 | 500 |
| 7 | Historical Perspective Jacob Nissim Israelachvili · Elsevier eBooks | 2011 | 469 |
| 8 | Differentials, higher-order differentials and the derivative in the Leibnizian calculus H. J. M. Bos · Archive for History of Exact Sciences | 1974 | 376 |
| 9 | The historiography of philosophy: four genres Richard M. Rorty · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 8 Nov 1984 | 368 |
| 10 | Two accounts of laws and time Barry Loewer · Philosophical Studies | 25 Apr 2012 | 323 |
| 11 | The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation Jay A. Labinger · Physics Today | Mar 2009 | 319 |
| 12 | Desire as Belief David Lewis · Mind | 1988 | 308 |
| 13 | Scottish Common Sense in Germany, 1768-1800: A Contribution to the History of Critical Philosophy Hugh Barr Nisbet, Manfred Kuehn · The Modern Language Review | 1990 | 297 |
| 14 | Newton and the ‘Pipes of Pan’ James E. Mcguire, Piyo M. Rattansi · Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science | 31 Dec 1966 | 290 |
| 15 | Aristotle on Consciousness Victor Caston · Mind | Oct 2002 | 287 |
| 16 | Mach’s principle and the structure of dynamical theories Julian Barbour, B. Bertotti · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 9 Aug 1982 | 275 |
| 17 | Hedonism Reconsidered Roger Crisp · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | Nov 2006 | 268 |
| 18 | The Statue and the Clay Judith Jarvis Thomson · Noûs | Jun 1998 | 264 |
| 19 | Mathematical Analysis V. I. Arnol’d · Birkhäuser Basel eBooks | 1990 | 263 |
| 20 | Eighteenth-Century Life Robert P. Maccubbin | 1994 | 246 |
| 21 | Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data Alyssa A Goodman, Alberto Pepe, Alexander W. Blocker et al. · PLoS Computational Biology | 24 Apr 2014 | 240 |
| 22 | VIBRIO PARAHÆMOLYTICUS Fredy P. Roland · The Lancet | Jun 1974 | 235 |
| 23 | Preliminary Communication Colin T. Dollery, David Wilfred Hill, Colin Mailer et al. · The Lancet | Aug 1964 | 234 |
| 24 | Proper classes Penelope Maddy · Journal of Symbolic Logic | Mar 1983 | 221 |
| 25 | Perception and Its Objects P. F. Strawson · The MIT Press eBooks | 25 Oct 2002 | 220 |
| 26 | Alchemy Vs. Chemistry: the Etymological Origins of a Historiographic Mistake1 William Royall Newman, Lawrence M. Principe · Early Science and Medicine | 1998 | 220 |
| 27 | The concept of function up to the middle of the 19th century A. P. Youschkevitch · Archive for History of Exact Sciences | Mar 1976 | 220 |
| 28 | Occult Qualities and the Experimental Philosophy: Active Principles in Pre-Newtonian Matter Theory John Henry · History of Science | Dec 1986 | 219 |
| 29 | Christian Theology and the Newtonian Science: The Rise of the Concept of the Laws of Nature Francis Oakley · Church History | Dec 1961 | 218 |
| 30 | Is There a Perceptual Relation? Tim Crane · Oxford University Press eBooks | 19 Jan 2006 | 217 |
| 31 | Necessary conditions of learning Philip M. Reeves, Rayne Audrey Sperling, D. Jake Follmer et al. · The Journal of Educational Research | 13 Sep 2016 | 214 |
| 32 | ‘A Brute to the Brutes?’: Descartes' Treatment of Animals John Cottingham · Philosophy | Oct 1978 | 213 |
| 33 | The Justification of Deduction Susan Haack · Mind | 1976 | 210 |
| 34 | The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory Gary Hatfield, WILLIAM M. EPSTEIN · Isis | Sep 1979 | 208 |
| 35 | The Sellar Region Albert L. Rhoton · Neurosurgery | Oct 2002 | 207 |
| 36 | Locke's Theory of Appropriation Karl Olivecrona · The Philosophical Quarterly | Jul 1974 | 206 |
| 37 | Relational Concepts of Space and Time Julian Barbour · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Sep 1982 | 199 |
| 38 | Locke's theory of ideas Vere Chappell · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 24 Jun 1994 | 197 |
| 39 | Die aristotelische Physik Gunter Lind | 1992 | 194 |
| 40 | Essays on Descartes' Meditations Eric Matthews · Philosophical Books | Jul 1987 | 191 |
| 41 | Towards a ‘notional’ theory of the ‘parts of speech’ John Coriden Lyons · Journal of Linguistics | Oct 1966 | 190 |
| 42 | Redefining geometrical exactness : Descartes' transformation of the early modern concept of construction Henk J. M. Bos | 2001 | 188 |
| 43 | MECHANICS OF FORM CLOSURE. Kannan Lakshminarayan | 1978 | 183 |
| 44 | Should a materialist believe in Qualia? David Lewis · Australasian Journal of Philosophy | Mar 1995 | 179 |
| 45 | Leibniz's metaphysics its origins and development Christia Mercer | 2001 | 178 |
| 46 | Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologiae, 1a 75-89 Robert O. Pasnau | 12 Nov 2001 | 177 |
| 47 | The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling Andrea Gambarotto · German History | 8 Jun 2018 | 176 |
| 48 | ANTAGONISM OF INSULIN BY ALBUMIN Clara Lowy · The Lancet | Apr 1961 | 176 |
| 49 | “The Mind Is Its Own Place”: Science and Solitude in Seventeenth-Century England Steven Shapin · Science in Context | 1991 | 174 |
| 50 | Force (God) in Descartes' physics Gary Hatfield · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A | Jun 1979 | 173 |
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