Looking at books misses very highly cited and important articles by philosophers like Ned Block and Tyler Burge, of course. At the same time, there are a large number of very influential books in this field. I list only those with at least 3,000 citations (rounded to the nearest 100). As usual, email me about omissions or corrections.
- Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, 28,400
- Jerry Fodor, Modularity of Mind, 22,600
- Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 21,100
- Francesco Varela, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind, 18,400
- David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, 16,100
- Jerry Fodor, The Language of Thought, 14,100
- John Searle, Intentionality, 12,200
- Daniel Dennett, The Intentional Stance, 11,900
- Andy Clark, Being There, 9,200
- John Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, 8,000
- Alva Noe, Action in Perception, 7,400
- Evan Thompson, Mind in Life, 7,100
- Shaun Gallagher, How the Body Shapes the Mind, 6,900
- Daniel Dennett, Brainstorms, 6,200
- Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories, 6,100
- Andy Clark, Supersizing the Mind, 6,000
- Jerry Fodor, Psychosemantics, 6,000
- Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi, The Phenomenological Mind, 4,900
- David Armstrong, A Materialist Theory of the Mind, 4,700
- Tony Chemero, Radical Embodied Cognitive Science, 4,200
- Fred Dretske, Naturalizing the Mind, 4,000
- Fred Dretske, Explaining Behavior, 3,900
- J.L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, 3,700
- Lawrence Shapiro, Embodied Cognition, 3,700
- Jerry Fodor, Concepts, 3,600
- Alvin Goldman, Simulating Minds, 3,600
- Patricia Churchland, Neurophilosophy, 3,500
- Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty, 3,500
- Jaegwon Kim, Mind in a Physical World, 3,500
- John Searle, Minds, Brains and Science, 3,400
- Paul Churchland, Matter and Consciousness, 3,300
- Hilary Putnam, Representation and Reality, 3,300
- Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science, 3,300
- Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness, 3,200
- Dan Zahavi, Subjectivity and Selfhood, 3,200
- Jerry Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way, 3,100
- Jesse Prinz, Gut Reactions, 3,000




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