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Most cited papers in Medieval Philosophy and Theology

Medieval Philosophy and Theology

What are the most cited papers in Medieval Philosophy and Theology?

The most cited paper in Medieval Philosophy and Theology is "The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason" (R. Jay Wallace, 1988), with 1,521 citations. Next come "Philosophical Perspectives 5" (766) and "Justification and truth" (710).

Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 67 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason R. Jay Wallace · Philosophical Books Oct 1988 1,521
2 Philosophical Perspectives 5 Brian Leftow, The Society of Christian Philosophers · Faith and Philosophy Open access 1996 766
3 Justification and truth Stewart Cohen · Philosophical Studies Nov 1984 710
4 The Elements of Moral Philosophy R. S. Downie · Philosophical Books Jul 1987 409
5 Iustitia Dei: A History of the Christian Doctrine of Justification Alister E. McGrath 1986 333
6 Modalities in Medieval Philosophy. Richard Gaskin, Simo Knuuttila · The Philosophical Quarterly Jul 1994 250
7 Desire as Belief II David Lewis · Mind Apr 1996 219
8 EXTERNALIST MORAL REALISM David Owen Brink · The Southern Journal of Philosophy Mar 1986 196
9 The Christian Philosophy of St Thomas Aquinas. Albert E. Wingell, Étienne Gilson · The Philosophical Quarterly Open access Oct 1995 178
10 Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa Theologiae, 1a 75-89 Robert O. Pasnau 12 Nov 2001 177
11 Human Knowledge and the Infinite Regress of Reasons Peter Douglas. Klein · Noûs Oct 1999 176
12 Aspects of the “Great” Persecution G. E. M. de Ste. Croix · Harvard Theological Review Apr 1954 176
13 Observations on the Reception of the Aristotelian Poetics in the Latin West E. N. Tigerstedt · Studies in the Renaissance 1968 175
14 Machiavelli's Discorsi and the pre-humanist origins of republican ideas Quentin Skinner · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 10 Jan 1991 174
15 Medieval Theories of Natural Law: William of Ockham and the Significance of the Voluntarist Tradition F Oakley · The American Journal of Jurisprudence 1961 153
16 The annals of humanities computing: The index Thomisticus Roberto Busa · Computers and the Humanities Oct 1980 153
17 Renaissance Latin Aristotle Commentaries: Authors A-B Charles H. Lohr · Studies in the Renaissance 1974 141
18 Mindwaves: Thoughts on Intelligence, Identity and Consciousness DAVID H. MITCHELL · Philosophical Books 1989 139
19 Aquinas's Replication of the Acquired Moral Virtues: John Inglis · Journal of Religious Ethics 1999 137
20 WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE WHETHER MORAL REALISM IS TRUE? Nicholas L. Sturgeon · The Southern Journal of Philosophy Mar 1986 135
21 Canonical Quantization of Gravity Karel V. Kuchař · Astrophysics and space science library Book chapter 1973 131
22 DUNS SCOTUS: HIS HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY SIGNIFICANCE Catherine Pickstock · Modern Theology Oct 2005 127
23 The Medieval World of Isidore of Seville. Truth from Words Olga Spevak · Mnemosyne 17 Dec 2008 125
24 Theology after Wittgenstein. JOHN J. HALDANE, Fergus Kerr · The Philosophical Quarterly Apr 1988 122
25 The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy Jerome B. Schneewind 13 Dec 1997 122
26 Gershom Carmichael and the natural jurisprudence tradition in eighteenth-century Scotland James E. Moore, Michael Silverthorne · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 17 Nov 1983 122
27 The Genesis of Shame J. David Velleman · Philosophy &amp Public Affairs 2001 121
28 Moral Reality Revisited Michael S. Moore · Michigan Law Review Open access Aug 1992 120
29 Qualia ain’t in the head Alex Byrne, Michael Tye · Noûs 8 May 2006 120
30 PARTIAL CHARACTER AND THE LANGUAGE OF THOUGHT Stephen White · Pacific philosophical quarterly Oct 1982 118
31 Naturalism: Friends and Foes Penelope Maddy · Noûs Oct 2001 116
32 The "Libelli Sophistarum" and the Use of Medieval Logic Texts at Oxford and Cambridge in the Early Sixteenth Century E. Jennifer Ashworth · Vivarium 1979 114
33 The Structure of Justification. Walter P. Sinnott-Armstrong, Robert Audi · The Philosophical Quarterly Jul 1995 113
34 Dante's Hell, Aquinas's Moral Theory, and the Love of God Eleonore Stump · Canadian Journal of Philosophy Open access Jun 1986 111
35 Pufendorf's place in the history of ethics Jerome B. Schneewind · Synthese Jul 1987 110
36 The Desire for Good: Is the Meno Inconsistent with the Gorgias? Terry Penner, Rowe · Phronesis 1994 110
37 Nature, Ethics, and the Doctrine of ‘Habitus’: Aristotelian Moral Psychology in the Twelfth Century Cary Joseph Nederman · Traditio 1990 109
38 THE RETRIEVAL OF DEIFICATION: HOW A ONCE‐DESPISED ARCHAISM BECAME AN ECUMENICAL DESIDERATUM Paul L. Gavrilyuk · Modern Theology 14 Sep 2009 109
39 Happiness, the Self and Human Flourishing Daniel M. Haybron · Utilitas 18 Feb 2008 105
40 LX. Deviations from Vegard's law J. Friedel · The London Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science May 1955 105
41 Thomas Aquinas and the Voluntarists Jeffrey P. Hause · Medieval Philosophy and Theology Open access 1997 104
42 Aquinas on Mental Representation: Concepts and Intentionality Jeffrey E. Brower, Susan Brower-Toland · The Philosophical Review Open access 27 Mar 2008 100
43 "For Riding is Required a Horse" : A Pyoblem of Meaning and Reference in Late Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century Logic E. Jennifer Ashworth · Vivarium 1974 99
44 A NEW DEFENCE OF ANSELMIAN THEISM Yujin Nagasawa · The Philosophical Quarterly 16 Sep 2008 98
45 Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative Alasdair MacIntyre 14 Nov 2016 96
46 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUL: ARISTOTLE ON LACK OF DELIBERATIVE AUTHORITY Karen Margrethe Nielsen · The Classical Quarterly 10 Jun 2015 96
47 Permanence of the Ten Commandments: St. Thomas and His Modern Commentators Patrick Lee · Theological Studies Sep 1981 95
48 Materialism and the Psychological‐Continuity Account of Personal Identity Peter van Inwagen · Noûs 1997 92
49 A Quodlibetal Question of Robert Holkot, O.P. on the Problem of the Objects of Knowledge and of Belief Ernest A. Moody · Speculum 1964 89
50 On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings Peter King · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter 20 May 2010 89

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