Topic · Philosophy, Science, and History
Most cited papers in Philosophy, Science, and History
What are the most cited papers in Philosophy, Science, and History?
The most cited paper in Philosophy, Science, and History is "Naming and Necessity" (Saul A. Kripke, 1972), with 5,275 citations. Next come "Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes" (4,449) and "Main Trends in Recent Philosophy: Two Dogmas of Empiricism" (3,019).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 171 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Naming and Necessity Saul A. Kripke | 1972 | 5,275 |
| 2 | Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes И. Лакатос · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 2 Sep 1970 | 4,449 |
| 3 | Main Trends in Recent Philosophy: Two Dogmas of Empiricism Willard Van Orman Quine · The Philosophical Review | 1951 | 3,019 |
| 4 | Content and Consciousness. N. J. H. Dent, Daniel C. Dennett · The Philosophical Quarterly | Oct 1970 | 1,140 |
| 5 | Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity Alan D. Sokal · Social Text | 1996 | 1,110 |
| 6 | Toward a statistical theory of learning. W. K. Estes · Psychological Review | Mar 1950 | 1,018 |
| 7 | On What There is Alfred Jules Ayer · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks | 1972 | 989 |
| 8 | Reconstruction in Philosophy. W. M. Sibley, John Dewey · The Philosophical Review | Apr 1950 | 943 |
| 9 | Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity Thomas K. Metzinger | 2003 | 898 |
| 10 | History of Science and Its Rational Reconstructions Imre Lakatos · PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association | 1970 | 780 |
| 11 | The Terrorist Threat Ulrich Beck · Theory Culture & Society | Aug 2002 | 666 |
| 12 | Models and reality Hilary Putnam · Journal of Symbolic Logic | Sep 1980 | 645 |
| 13 | On the unit of description in phenomenography Ference Marton, Wing Yan Pong · Higher Education Research & Development | 6 Oct 2005 | 562 |
| 14 | Remodelling Structural Realism: Quantum Physics and the Metaphysics of Structure Steven French, James Ladyman · Synthese | Jul 2003 | 494 |
| 15 | Deflationist Views of Meaning and Content Hartry H. Field · Mind | 1994 | 489 |
| 16 | The Instrumental Method in Psychology Robert W. Rieber, Jeffrey Wollock | 1997 | 482 |
| 17 | An Inferential Conception of Scientific Representation Mauricio Suárez · Philosophy of Science | Dec 2004 | 477 |
| 18 | Phenomenology of Perception Timothy D. Mooney · International Journal of Philosophical Studies | Oct 2012 | 463 |
| 19 | Notes on Pragmatism and Scientific Realism Cleo H. Cherryholmes · Educational Researcher | Aug 1992 | 461 |
| 20 | History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions Steven Shapin · History of Science | Sep 1982 | 445 |
| 21 | Indeterminist time and truth‐value gaps1 Richmond H. Thomason · Theoria | Dec 1970 | 426 |
| 22 | Representationalism and the Transparency of Experience Michael Tye · Noûs | Mar 2002 | 421 |
| 23 | On the Origin of the Theory of Mineral Nutrition of Plants and the Law of the Minimum R. R. van der Ploeg, Wolfgang Böhm, Michael Kirkham · Soil Science Society of America Journal | Sep 1999 | 410 |
| 24 | On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name1 John C. McDowell · Mind | 1977 | 391 |
| 25 | Sidgwick and Reflective Equilibrium Peter Warren Singer · The Monist | 1974 | 390 |
| 26 | Informal Rigour and Completeness Proofs Georg Kreisel · Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics | 1967 | 389 |
| 27 | Äthinylierung Walter Reppe, Mitarbeitern · Justus Liebig s Annalen der Chemie | 14 Nov 1955 | 383 |
| 28 | Theoretical philosophy after 1781 Immanuel Kant, Henry E. Allison, Peter Heath et al. · Thammasat University Digital Collections | 2002 | 368 |
| 29 | Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics Andrew Pickering, Hugh N. Pendleton · Physics Today | Jul 1985 | 365 |
| 30 | Contingent identity Allan Gibbard · Journal of Philosophical Logic | May 1975 | 364 |
| 31 | The Metaphysical Club Jackson Lears, Louis Menand · Journal of American History | Dec 2002 | 357 |
| 32 | Truthmakers and ontological commitment: or how to deal with complex objects and mathematical ontology without getting into trouble Ross Paul Cameron · Philosophical Studies | 31 Mar 2008 | 349 |
| 33 | PERCEPTION AND THE REACH OF PHENOMENAL CONTENT Tim Bayne · The Philosophical Quarterly | 20 May 2009 | 347 |
| 34 | On Extensions of Elementary Logic Per Lindström · Theoria | Apr 1969 | 339 |
| 35 | Russell, Idealism and the Emergence of Analytic Philosophy Andy Hamilton · Philosophical Books | Apr 1991 | 336 |
| 36 | III-Faultless Disagreement Max Kölbel · Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback) | Jun 2004 | 327 |
| 37 | Against structural universals David E. Lewis · Australasian Journal of Philosophy | Mar 1986 | 309 |
| 38 | Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences Kristin Gjesdal · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 2 Jan 2019 | 308 |
| 39 | EXPERIENCE AND CONTENT Alex Byrne · The Philosophical Quarterly | 27 Apr 2009 | 304 |
| 40 | The history of introspection reconsidered Kurt Danziger · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences | Jul 1980 | 304 |
| 41 | Explaining the ’’at rest’’ condition of an object Jim Minstrell · The Physics Teacher | 1982 | 298 |
| 42 | Quantum Mechanics: Historical Contingency and the Copenhagen Hegemony James T. Cushing, Norman Levitt · Physics Today | Nov 1995 | 290 |
| 43 | Tonk, Plonk and Plink Nuel Belnap · Analysis | Jun 1962 | 281 |
| 44 | The aim and structure of applied research Ilkka Niiniluoto · Erkenntnis | 1993 | 278 |
| 45 | Distinctions Without a Difference Vann McGee, Brian P. McLaughlin · The Southern Journal of Philosophy | Mar 1995 | 276 |
| 46 | New Empiricisms and New Materialisms Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, Alecia Y. Jackson, Lisa A. Mazzei · Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies | 21 Mar 2016 | 273 |
| 47 | Volksgeist as method and ethic: Essays on Boasian ethnography and the German anthropological tradition Douglas L. Cole · Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences | 1997 | 268 |
| 48 | Kant and Nonconceptual Content Robert Hanna · European Journal of Philosophy | 19 Jul 2005 | 257 |
| 49 | Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language Jean van Heijenoort · Boston studies in the philosophy of science | 1967 | 256 |
| 50 | Über den Wertevorrat einer Matrix Rudolf Kippenhahn · Mathematische Nachrichten | 1951 | 256 |
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