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Philosophy and Theoretical Science

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Matt Duncan
Providence College
2
Anna Giustina
University of Liège
3
David Thorstad
Vanderbilt University
4
David Builes
Princeton University
5
Alex Moran
University of Fribourg
6
Henry Shevlin
Saudi Heart Association
7
Jennifer Rose Carr
University of California San Diego
8
Jane Friedman
New York University
9
Tim Juvshik
Middlebury College
10
Samuel Kimpton‐Nye
Kensington College of Business

Rising Stars Papers

1
All too human? Identifying and mitigating ethical risks of Social AI
Law Ethics & Technology|2024
28 cit.
2
Inner awareness: the argument from attention
Philosophical Studies|2024
25 cit.
3
Against the singularity hypothesis
Philosophical Studies|2024
16 cit.
4
Mistakes in the Moral Mathematics of Existential Risk
Ethics|2024
8 cit.
5
How to ground powers
Analysis|2024
4 cit.
6
The Mind Body Problem and Metaphysics: An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance
The Philosophical Quarterly|2024
4 cit.
7
What makes a kind an artifact kind?
Synthese|2025
3 cit.
8
The Scope of Longtermism
Australasian Journal of Philosophy|2025
3 cit.
9
The Complexity–Coherence Trade-Off in Cognition
Mind|2025
2 cit.
10
Interventions in inquiry
Synthese|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
John C. McDowell
University of Divinity
2
Daiko Takahashi
Tohoku University
3
Jeffrey C. King
American University of Sharjah
4
Ángeles Eraña
Instituto de Filosofía
5
Tristram McPherson
The Ohio State University
6
Barbara Osimani
Marche Polytechnic University
7
Veselina Kadreva
New Bulgarian University
8
Sarah Songhorian
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
9
Carlos Romero
Viña del Mar University
10
Ivar R. Hannikainen
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Coordination and expertise foster legal textualism
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2022
38 cit.
2
Rule is a dual character concept
Cognition|2022
26 cit.
3
Ground, Essence, and the Metaphysics of Metanormative Non-Naturalism
Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy|2023
26 cit.
4
Incentives for Research Effort: An Evolutionary Model of Publication Markets with Double-Blind and Open Review
Computational Economics|2022
19 cit.
5
Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces: medical innovations and ethical challenges
Frontiers in Human Dynamics|2025
19 cit.
6
The state of human rights in a (post) COVID-19 world
Journal of Human Rights|2022
17 cit.
7
Moral appraisals guide intuitive legal determinations.
Law and Human Behavior|2023
17 cit.
8
Purposes in Law and in Life: An Experimental Investigation of Purpose Attribution
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence|2022
9 cit.
9
The typicality effect in basic needs
Synthese|2022
7 cit.
10
Politicising pandemics: Evidence from <scp>US</scp> media coverage of the World Health Organisation
Global Policy|2023
7 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
David J. Chalmers
New York University
2
Edward N. Zalta
Stanford University
3
Zoltán Szabó
University of Szeged
4
Noam Chomsky
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5
Kenneth Aizawa
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
6
Ewan Klein
University of Sussex
7
Mark Timmons
University of Arizona
8
Huw Price
The University of Sydney
9
Duncan Pritchard
University of California, Berkeley
10
Robert Brandom
University of Pittsburgh

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1989
5.5k cit.
2
The Extended Mind
Analysis|1998
5.1k cit.
3
Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use.
The Philosophical Review|1988
4.7k cit.
4
<b>Verbal behavior.</b> By B. F. Skinner. (The Century Psychology Series.) Pp. viii, 478. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1957.
Language|1959
3.4k cit.
5
Rules and Representations.
The Philosophical Review|1982
2.8k cit.
6
Three models for the description of language
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory|1956
2.8k cit.
7
Making it explicit : reasoning, representing, and discursive commitment
Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association|1994
2.6k cit.
8
Three Factors in Language Design
Linguistic Inquiry|2005
2.6k cit.
9
Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding
The Modern Language Review|1986
2k cit.
10
Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy
Unknown Journal|2002
2k cit.

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