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Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
C. Thi Nguyen
Utah Valley University
2
Arianna Falbo
John Brown University
3
David Thorstad
Vanderbilt University
4
Cameron Boult
University of Johannesburg
5
Matt Duncan
Providence College
6
Keith Raymond Harris
University of Vienna
7
Anna Giustina
University of Liège
8
Briana Toole
Claremont McKenna College
9
Bin Zhao
Peking University
10
Ed Donnellan
University of Reading

Rising Stars Papers

1
Inner awareness: the argument from attention
Philosophical Studies|2024
25 cit.
2
Inquiry for the mistaken and confused
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research|2024
19 cit.
3
The relational foundations of epistemic normativity
Philosophical Issues|2024
17 cit.
4
Against the singularity hypothesis
Philosophical Studies|2024
16 cit.
5
AI or Your Lying Eyes: Some Shortcomings of Artificially Intelligent Deepfake Detectors
Philosophy & Technology|2024
11 cit.
6
On Translating the Sensitivity Condition to the Possible Worlds Idiom in Different Ways
American Philosophical Quarterly|2024
8 cit.
7
On Relativizing the Sensitivity Condition to Belief-Formation Methods
American Philosophical Quarterly|2024
8 cit.
8
Mistakes in the Moral Mathematics of Existential Risk
Ethics|2024
8 cit.
9
Synthetic Media Detection, the Wheel, and the Burden of Proof
Philosophy & Technology|2024
8 cit.
10
Epistemic blame as relationship modification: reply to Smartt
Philosophical Studies|2024
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Joe Slater
University of Glasgow
2
Kristina Loderer
University of Augsburg
3
John Schwenkler
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
4
Derek Schatz
McKinsey & Company (United States)
5
Xun Zhu
Soochow University
6
Toby Ord
University of Oxford
7
Brent B. Clark
University of Nebraska at Omaha
8
Ryan M. Nefdt
University of Cape Town
9
Carlotta Pavese
Duke University
10
Benjamin Kiesewetter
Bielefeld University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
ChatGPT is bullshit
Ethics and Information Technology|2024
342 cit.
2
Conceptual engineering: A road map to practice
Philosophy Compass|2022
142 cit.
3
Practical knowledge first
Synthese|2022
46 cit.
4
Seeming Ethical Makes You Attractive: Unraveling How Ethical Perceptions of AI in Hiring Impacts Organizational Innovativeness and Attractiveness
Journal of Business Ethics|2023
34 cit.
5
Distinguishing unpredictability from uncertainty in entrepreneurial action theory
Small Business Economics|2022
29 cit.
6
Proximal language predicts crowdfunding success: Behavioral and experimental evidence
Computers in Human Behavior|2022
28 cit.
7
Skills as Knowledge
Australasian Journal of Philosophy|2022
20 cit.
8
Environmental Monitoring for Arctic Resiliency and Sustainability: An Integrated Approach with Topic Modeling and Network Analysis
Sustainability|2022
17 cit.
9
Liked and shared tweets during the pandemic: the relationship between intrinsic message features and (mis)information engagement
Behaviour and Information Technology|2023
15 cit.
10
Rogue Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice|2023
13 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John R. Searle
University of California, Berkeley
2
Edward N. Zalta
Stanford University
3
Deirdre Wilson
University College London
4
Geoffrey Raymond
University of California, Santa Barbara
5
Philip Pettit
Princeton University
6
Matthew McGrath
University of Missouri
7
Joshua Knobe
Stanford University
8
Jonathan M. Weinberg
University of Arizona
9
Duncan Pritchard
University of California, Berkeley
10
Yan Xiao
Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Minds, brains, and programs
Behavioral and Brain Sciences|1980
6.5k cit.
2
Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language.
The Philosophical Quarterly|1970
3.9k cit.
3
A classification of illocutionary acts
Language in Society|1976
3k cit.
4
Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
Unknown Journal|2002
2k cit.
5
The Construction of Social Reality.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1996
1.8k cit.
6
The Terms of Agreement: Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction
Social Psychology Quarterly|2005
1.7k cit.
7
Epistemic Vigilance
Mind & Language|2010
1.6k cit.
8
Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind‐reading
Mind & Language|2002
1.3k cit.
9
Relevance: Communication and Cognition
The Modern Language Review|1989
1.2k cit.
10
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government.
The Philosophical Review|1999
1.1k cit.

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