I list only those books with 3,000 or more citations. Please notify me of omissions or corrections.
- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 168,000
- Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, 44,800
- Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations, 27,800
- Paul Feyerabend, Against Method, 18,400
- Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge, 16,600
- Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour & Richard Scheines, Causation, Prediction, and Search, 13,000
- Ernest Nagel, The Structure of Science, 11,000
- Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image, 10,800
- Carl Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation, 10,600
- Ian Hacking, Representing and Intervening, 9,400
- Thomas Kuhn, The Essential Tension, 7,200
- Helen Longino, Science as Social Knowledge, 6,800
- Larry Laudan, Progress and its Problems, 6,700
- Nancy Cartwright, How the Laws of Physics Lie, 6,500
- James Woodward, Making Things Happen, 6,400
- David Hull, Science as Process, 4,100
- Nancy Cartwright, The Dappled World, 4,000
- Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science, 3,800
- Bas van Fraassen, Laws and Symmetry, 3,800
- Hans Reichenbach, The Direction of Time, 3,500
- John Dupre, The Disorder of Things, 3,400
- Colin Howson & Peter Urbach, Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach, 3,400
- Elliott Sober, The Nature of Selection, 3,300
- Stathis Psillos, Scientific Realism, 3,000




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