Most cited papers in Philosophy and Theoretical Science
What are the most cited papers in Philosophy and Theoretical Science?
The most cited paper in Philosophy and Theoretical Science is "The Extended Mind" (Andy Clark, David J. Chalmers, 1998), with 5,419 citations. Next come "Naming and Necessity" (5,275) and "Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence" (3,307).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 515 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Extended Mind Andy Clark, David J. Chalmers · Analysis | 1998 | 5,419 |
| 2 | Naming and Necessity Saul A. Kripke | 1972 | 5,275 |
| 3 | Some Philosophical Problems from the Standpoint of Artificial Intelligence John McCarthy, Patrick J. Hayes · Elsevier eBooks | 1981 | 3,307 |
| 4 | New work for a theory of universals David Lewis · Australasian Journal of Philosophy | Dec 1983 | 3,103 |
| 5 | MATERIALISM AND QUALIA: THE EXPLANATORY GAP Joseph S. Levine · Pacific philosophical quarterly | Oct 1983 | 2,124 |
| 6 | The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English Richard Montague | 1973 | 2,078 |
| 7 | TRUTH AND OTHER ENIGMAS C. J. F. Williams · Philosophical Books | Oct 1979 | 1,913 |
| 8 | A Theory of Conditionals ROBERT C. STALNAKER | 1968 | 1,777 |
| 9 | A Confutation of Convergent Realism Larry Laudan · Philosophy of Science | Mar 1981 | 1,558 |
| 10 | Methodological solipsism considered as a research strategy in cognitive psychology J. A. Fodor · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Mar 1980 | 1,492 |
| 11 | Going Beyond Bell’s Theorem Daniel M. Greenberger, Michael Horne, Anton Zeilinger | 1989 | 1,491 |
| 12 | Philosophische Untersuchungen Joachim Schulte · J.B. Metzler eBooks | 2022 | 1,348 |
| 13 | Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness David J. Chalmers | Sep 1998 | 1,340 |
| 14 | THE THEORY OF INFILTRATION J. R. Philip · Soil Science | Sep 1957 | 1,228 |
| 15 | III.—ON REFERRING Peter Frederick Strawson · Mind | 1950 | 1,227 |
| 16 | What ‘must’ and ‘can’ must and can mean Angelika Kratzer · Linguistics and Philosophy | 1977 | 1,212 |
| 17 | Content and Consciousness. N. J. H. Dent, Daniel C. Dennett · The Philosophical Quarterly | Oct 1970 | 1,140 |
| 18 | Common Ground ROBERT C. STALNAKER · Linguistics and Philosophy | Dec 2002 | 1,129 |
| 19 | The Skeptic and the Dogmatist James Pryor · Noûs | Dec 2000 | 1,125 |
| 20 | In Defense of Proper Functions Ruth Garrett Millikan · Philosophy of Science | Jun 1989 | 1,107 |
| 21 | The Transparency of Experience M. G. F. Martin · Mind & Language | Sep 2002 | 1,095 |
| 22 | Realism, anti-foundationalism and the enthusiasm for natural kinds R. N. Boyd · Philosophical Studies | Feb 1991 | 1,086 |
| 23 | On Quantifier Domain Restriction Jason Stanley, Zoltan Gendler Szabo · Mind & Language | 2000 | 1,074 |
| 24 | Philosophical explanations Ezra Talmor · History of European Ideas | 1986 | 1,066 |
| 25 | PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS J. E. Llewelyn · Philosophical Books | Oct 1977 | 1,049 |
| 26 | On What There is Alfred Jules Ayer · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 1972 | 989 |
| 27 | Referential and quantificational indefinites Janet Dean Fodor, Ivan A. Sag · Linguistics and Philosophy | 1982 | 939 |
| 28 | How to Defeat Opposition to Moore Ernest Sosa · Noûs | Oct 1999 | 914 |
| 29 | A World of States of Affairs D. M. Armstrong · Nijhoff international philosophy series | 1993 | 913 |
| 30 | Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity Thomas K. Metzinger | 2003 | 898 |
| 31 | Mechanisms and the nature of causation StuartS. Glennan · Erkenntnis | 1996 | 889 |
| 32 | Monism: The Priority of the Whole Jonathan Schaffer · The Philosophical Review | 9 Dec 2009 | 887 |
| 33 | What is structural realism? James Ladyman · Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A | Sep 1998 | 883 |
| 34 | Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust? Alvin I. Goldman · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | Jul 2001 | 863 |
| 35 | Causality and Properties Sydney Shoemaker | 1980 | 860 |
| 36 | Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning George Pólya · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 1954 | 859 |
| 37 | Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time Theodore Sider · Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) | 7 Feb 2002 | 850 |
| 38 | Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought. Gilbert H. Harman, Noam Chomsky · The Philosophical Review | Apr 1968 | 827 |
| 39 | Putnam's paradox David Lewis · Australasian Journal of Philosophy | Sep 1984 | 825 |
| 40 | Utterer’s Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning H. P. Grice · Studies in cognitive systems | 1968 | 824 |
| 41 | How we know—and sometimes misjudge—what others know: Imputing one's own knowledge to others. Raymond S. Nickerson · Psychological Bulletin | Nov 1999 | 823 |
| 42 | A Matter of Individuality David L. Hull · Philosophy of Science | Sep 1978 | 800 |
| 43 | Consciousness and metacognition. Thomas O. Nelson · American Psychologist | Feb 1996 | 795 |
| 44 | PRACTICAL REASON AND NORMS R. G. Frey · Philosophical Books | Oct 1976 | 790 |
| 45 | No Work for a Theory of Grounding Jessica Wilson · Inquiry | 24 Jun 2014 | 781 |
| 46 | Dispositions and Conditionals C. B. Martin · The Philosophical Quarterly | 1994 | 772 |
| 47 | The bounds of cognition Fred Adams, Kenneth Aizawa · Philosophical Psychology | Mar 2001 | 767 |
| 48 | Meaning and Necessity, A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. R. M. Martin, Rudolf Carnap · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | Jun 1958 | 764 |
| 49 | A Subjectivist’s Guide to Objective Chance David Lewis | 1980 | 763 |
| 50 | Biology and knowledge Alan Olding · Theoria | Apr 1983 | 759 |
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