Philosophical Gourmet Report
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Most cited Anglophone books on Kant according to Google Scholar (CORRECTED)
I list only those books with at least 1,000 citations.
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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…
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Most cited books in philosophy of science of the last century, according to Google Scholar (CORRECTED)
I list only those books with 3,000 or more citations. Please notify me of omissions or corrections.
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20th-century Anglophone philosophers with at least 20,000 citations on their Google Scholar pages
Many major and highly cited 20th-century Anglophone philosophers do not have Google Scholar pages, of course: e.g., Rawls, Putnam, Williams, Parfit, Davidson, P.F. Strawson, Grice, Searle, E. Nagel, Dummett, Sellars, Carnap, Hempel, Goodman, Raz, Dworkin, Hart, Ayer, Hacking, and Ramsey, among others. Some listed below have pages created by others. If I missed some deceased…
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Most cited living philosophers with Google Scholar pages who either work in multiple areas or in areas not covered in the prior ranking lists (CORRECTED)
Here are the 20 most highly cited philosophers with Google Scholar pages who either (1) work across multiple fields, so did not have a majority of their citations to work in any of the prior areas covered (metaphysics & epistemology, moral & political philosophy, philosophy of mind & cognitive science, philosophy of language, free will…
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Coming soon in “most cited” philosophers with Google Scholar pages
I am going to do a list of philosophers who have not fit neatly into any of the prior lists who nonetheless have large numbers of citations (e.g., Michael Bratman, Edouard Machery, Shaun Nichols among others). Historians of philosophy tend not to have Google Scholar pages it turns out. I welcome suggestions for other sub-fields…
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Most cited living philosophers of language with Google Scholar pages
Once again, some folks who would likely be way up there–like David Kaplan, Stephen Neale, and Nathan Salmon–do not have Google Scholar pages. Some linguistics faculty are very important for philosophers of language (like Barbara Partee with 26,600 citations, and David Beaver with 11,400), but I’ve focused on those primarily in philosophy departments (linguistics tends…
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Most cited living moral & political philosophers (with Google Scholar pages) [CORRECTED AGAIN–moving to fron from November 17]
Fortunately, most of the most prominent living moral & political philosophers have such pages, although some who would surely be on the list do not (e.g., Allan Gibbard, Thomas Nagel, Martha Nussbaum). I only count those most of whose citations are in moral and political philosophy. (I excluded those primarily working in bioethics, which has…
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Most cited living philosophers of science (including physics and biology) with Google Scholar pages (CORRECTED–MOVING TO FRONT)
As before, some important living philosophers of science who would surely be on the list (like John Earman and Philip Kitcher) do not have Google Scholar pages. Only those with a clear majority of their citations to philosophy of science work are listed (this is an issue for some, like Sahotra Sarkar, most of whose…
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Most cited living philosophers with Google Scholar pages who work in decision, game and rational choice theory (and cognate areas like philosophy of probability)
As before, only philosophers with most of their citations to work in these areas are listed. Because the numbers drop off fairly quickly, I only list the “top ten.”
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Most cited living philosophers with Google Scholar pages working on free will & moral responsibility (CORRECTED)
Some philosophers who would have made the top ten in all likelihood do not have Google Scholar pages (e.g., Carl Ginet, Gary Watson, Susan Wolf). Once again, only those with a clear majority of their citations to work in this area are listed (Neil Levy [Macquarie] was a close case.) I list only the top…
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Most cited living philosophers working in metaphysics & epistemology with Google Scholar pages (CORRECTED)
Once again, some philosophers like to make the list (like Peter van Inwagen and Crispin Wright) did not have Google Scholar pages, but most did. Some philosophers (like Stalnaker, Stanley, Boghossian, Devitt) do a lot of work in philosophy of language, but often in ways that bleeds over into metaphysics & epistemology, so I include…
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Most cited living philosophers of mind and cognitive science (with Google Scholar pages) [CORRECTED]
Many philosophers of mind and cognitive science work also in cognate areas (like epistemology and philosophy of language), so I have tried to identify only those whose citations are primarily to their work in mind/cog sci. Some prominent philosophers who might have made the list did not have Google Scholar pages (e.g., Michael Tye, William…
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On being the victim of a stalker, and then being defamed for the stalker’s crime
In 2016, I was the victim of a stalker who tried to frame me for a crime; I sought help from the police and spent time and money on lawyers and forensic investigators trying to identify the perpetrator, without success. Anyone paying attention at the time realized that I was also a victim, but, unfortunately,…
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What really happened three years ago (fall 2014), a recap
The 2014 campaign to take down the Philosophical Gourmet Report (hereafter "the Report") was, as I've had occasion to note before, a fraud, but with a new Report about to appear, perhaps it's worth recapping yet again what actually happened before a new round of misrepresentations begin: Noelle McAfee, a professor at Emory with a…
The central claim is that LLMs (or AI more generally, I suppose) is an existential threat to universities. This gets…