Here are the 20 most highly cited philosophers with Google Scholar pages who either (1) work across multiple fields, so did not have a majority of their citations to work in any of the prior areas covered (metaphysics & epistemology, moral & political philosophy, philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of language, free will & moral responsibility, decision theory et al.); or (2) work mainly in areas not previously covered (see prior parenthetical). I focus only on philosophers for whom the majority of their citations are to philosophical work or work in philosophy journals. One tricky case is Barry Smith (University at Buffalo), with 55,900 citations, but a majority are to work in biomedical journals, although some of that work is related to his more clearly philosophical work in ontology.
(UPDATE: email me about omissions)
- Anthony Appiah (NYU): 48,000*
- Paul Thagard (Waterloo [emeritus]): 41,600
- Linda Alcoff (Hunter/CUNY): 28,100
- Michael Bratman (Stanford): 25,100
- Miranda Fricker (NYU): 21,400
- Joshua Knobe (Yale); 21,300
- Cristina Bicchieri (Penn): 21,000
- Shaun Nichols (Cornell): 20,600
- J. Baird Callicot (North Texas): 19,800
- Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh): 14,900
- Chandra Sripada (Michigan): 13,900
- Gregory Currie (York [emeritus]): 13,700
- Neil Levy (Macquarie): 13,600
- Colin Allen (UC Santa Barbara): 13,300
- Margaret Gilbert (UC Irvine): 12,800
- Brian Leiter (Chicago): 12,100
- Sally Haslanger (MIT): 11,800
- Cheryl Misak (Toronto): 11,000
- Alexander Nehamas (Princeton [emeritus]): 10,900
- Jerrold Levinson (Maryland [emeritus]): 10,500
*A number of highly cited works that appear on Appiah’s Google Scholar page are actually by other authors (esp. Charles Taylor)–I’ve subtracted those from the total listed here.
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