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Most cited books of Anglophone moral philosophy in the last two hundred years (CORRECTED)

Once again, this is according to Google Scholar, rounded to the nearest 100. Email me with corrections and omissions. I list only those with at least 3,000 citations, and exclude works of applied ethics. I could not find any results for Harman’s The Nature of Morality on Google Scholar, but I imagine it would make this list.

  1. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue, 37,800
  2. Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, 17,900
  3. John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 14,300
  4. G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica, 12,100
  5. T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other, 10,600
  6. Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, 10,200
  7. Martha Nussbaum, The Fragility of Goodness, 8,800
  8. J.L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, 8,500
  9. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 7,800
  10. W.D. Ross, The Right and the Good, 7,500
  11. Virginia Held, The Ethics of Care, 6,500
  12. Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, 6,500
  13. Christine Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity, 6,400
  14. R.M. Hare, The Language of Morals, 6,000
  15. Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good, 5,200
  16. Michael Smith, The Moral Problem, 4,400
  17. Allan Gibbard, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings, 4,200
  18. R.M. Hare, Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method and Point, 4,100
  19. Joseph Raz, Practical Reason and Norms, 4,100
  20. Thomas Nagel, The Possibility of Altruism, 4,000
  21. Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs, 3,800
  22. Derek Parfit, On What Matters, 3,300
  23. Stephen Darwall, The Second-Person Standpoint, 3,200
  24. R.M. Hare, Freedom and Reason, 3,200
  25. Philippa Foot, Virtues and Vices, 3,100
  26. Charles Stevenson, Ethics and Language, 3,100
  27. David Brink, Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics, 3,000
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