Philosophical Gourmet Report
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Most cited Anglophone books on Hegel according to Google Scholar (CORRECTED)
I list every book with at least 700 citations (since numbers drop off here pretty quick).
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Most cited Anglophone philosophical books on Marx since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)
I focus on English-language books mainly by philosophers, or that are obviously philosophically-minded. Totals are rounded to the nearest 100, and only books with at least 500 citations are listed. I could not find on Google Scholar Allen Wood’s Karl Marx in the Routledge “Arguments of the Philosophers” series, which would surely have made the…
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More on PhD admissions: waiting lists etc.
Some apt advice from philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel.
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Lateral moves/retirements since the 2024 Philosophical Gourmet Report: 2025-26 edition
In addition to the separate posts announcing (generally tenured) faculty moves, I will keep a running list of all lateral moves (and retirements and deaths) not reflected in the faculty lists for the 2024 PGR (some moves that took place after the 2024 PGR were reflected in the faculty list, because the editors knew of…
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Information about jobs in Asia?
Following up on this post, readers might also benefit from information about how to find out what jobs are available in Asia. It might also be useful to hear about the state of academic freedom in the various Asian countries for which there is job market information, especially China (which continues to invest in higher…
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Most cited Anglophone *articles* in philosophy of mind since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)
Following up on this list of books, here is a revised list of Anglophone articles in philosophy of mind (with thanks to commenters, below). Comments are still open, so please feel free to add others with at least 2,500 citations (and please include a link to the Google Scholar page with the citation data).
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Which philosophers (and departments) have published in each of the “top 5” Anglophone journals?
Philosophers Nicholas Lakowski took a look. Obviously this is heavily titled towards certain areas of philosophy which are always over-represented in those journals.
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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…
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Most cited Anglophone books on Hume in the last century (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)
Numbers drop off quickly here (even more than with Nietzsche!), so I list all books with at least 400 citations (rounded, as usual, to the nearest 100). Please email me about omissoins or corrections.
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Most cited post-WWII books on ancient Greek and Roman philosophy written by philosophers (according to Google Scholar again) (CORRECTED)
Books are not, in fact, the most important vehicle for scholarship in this area, as the absence of scholars like Myles Burnyeat, Alan Code, G.E.L. Owen, and Gisela Striker, among others, would suggest. But there are some very important and influential books, as the list shows. I have excluded translations with commentaries on important ancient…
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Most cited books in Anglophone philosophy of language since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)
I made some judgment calls, like treating Wittgenstein’s classic work as part of “Anglophone” philosophy of language; treating books that straddle philosophy of language and mind as belonging here; and largely excluding the kind of work professional linguists do, even when it is of interest to philosophers of language. (Chomsky is a tricky case, but…
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Most cited books in Anglophone epistemology since WWII (according to Google Scholar) (CORRECTED)
I list all books with at least 1,900 citations (which got the original list to twenty). In the case of Sellars’s classic “Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind,” the book version, published by Harvard in the 1990s, has received well over 2,000 citations, but I also included the many citations to the article version as…
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Most cited books of Anglophone (analytic) political philosophy over the last hundred years, according to Google Scholar (CORRECTED)
I list only those books with at least 4,000 citations.
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Most cited Anglophone books in philosophy of law over the last century
I list all those with at least 1,500 citations (rounded to nearest 100 as usual), since numbers drop off more quickly here (philosophy of law is a lower citation field than political philosophy).
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Most cited Anglophone philosophy books on Nietzsche according to Google Scholar
Only books with at least 600 citations are listed; citations are rounded to the nearest hundred, as before.
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…