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Most cited Anglophone books in philosophy of mind since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)

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.

  1. Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, 28,400
  2. Jerry Fodor, Modularity of Mind, 22,600
  3. Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained, 21,100
  4. Francesco Varela, Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch, The Embodied Mind, 18,400
  5. David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, 16,100
  6. Jerry Fodor, The Language of Thought, 14,100
  7. John Searle, Intentionality, 12,200
  8. Daniel Dennett, The Intentional Stance, 11,900
  9. Andy Clark, Being There, 9,200
  10. John Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, 8,000
  11. Alva Noe, Action in Perception, 7,400
  12. Evan Thompson, Mind in Life, 7,100
  13. Shaun Gallagher, How the Body Shapes the Mind, 6,900
  14. Daniel Dennett, Brainstorms, 6,200
  15. Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language, Thought and Other Biological Categories, 6,100
  16. Andy Clark, Supersizing the Mind, 6,000
  17. Jerry Fodor, Psychosemantics, 6,000
  18. Shaun Gallagher & Dan Zahavi, The Phenomenological Mind, 4,900
  19. David Armstrong, A Materialist Theory of the Mind, 4,700
  20. Tony Chemero, Radical Embodied Cognitive Science, 4,200
  21. Fred Dretske, Naturalizing the Mind, 4,000
  22. Fred Dretske, Explaining Behavior, 3,900
  23. J.L. Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, 3,700
  24. Lawrence Shapiro, Embodied Cognition, 3,700
  25. Jerry Fodor, Concepts, 3,600
  26. Alvin Goldman, Simulating Minds, 3,600
  27. Patricia Churchland, Neurophilosophy, 3,500
  28. Andy Clark, Surfing Uncertainty, 3,500
  29. Jaegwon Kim, Mind in a Physical World, 3,500
  30. John Searle, Minds, Brains and Science, 3,400
  31. Paul Churchland, Matter and Consciousness, 3,300
  32. Hilary Putnam, Representation and Reality, 3,300
  33. Stephen Stich, From Folk Psychology to Cognitive Science, 3,300
  34. Michael Tye, Ten Problems of Consciousness, 3,200
  35. Dan Zahavi, Subjectivity and Selfhood, 3,200
  36. Jerry Fodor, The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way, 3,100
  37. Jesse Prinz, Gut Reactions, 3,000
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