Philosophical Gourmet Report
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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.
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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…
“given the actual number of career-worthy jobs (i.e. not per-course or adjunct positions)” The “id est” seems mistaken. Many tenure-track…