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Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Lisa Guenther
Queen's University
2
Ailton Krenak
Unknown
3
Daniela Dover
University of California, Los Angeles
4
Thomas Byrne
University of Macau
5
Nikhil Krishnan
University of Cambridge
6
Saulius Geniušas
Chinese University of Hong Kong
7
Patricia Meindl
University of Copenhagen
8
Ville Suuronen
University of Turku
9
Tanu Biswas
University of Stavanger
10
Nicola Spano
University of Würzburg

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Origins of Sedimentation in <scp>Husserl</scp>'s Phenomenology
European Journal of Philosophy|2024
22 cit.
2
The Unconscious in Husserl’s Phenomenology
Human Studies|2024
12 cit.
3
Yearning for the Irretrievable: Nostalgia and Time
Emotion Review|2024
10 cit.
4
The struggle for identity in doctoral supervision: a phenomenologically grounded qualitative study of power and conflict
Studies in Higher Education|2025
10 cit.
5
From the Phenomenology of Reactivation to the Hermeneutics of Innovation
International Journal of Social Imaginaries|2024
8 cit.
6
The Adultcentrism Scale: A Potential Contributor to Advancing Children’s Participation Rights in Nordic Contexts
Social Sciences|2024
8 cit.
7
XV—Love’s Curiosity
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society|2024
6 cit.
8
Alfred Schutz’s phenomenology of sedimentations
Continental Philosophy Review|2025
5 cit.
9
An introduction to phenomenology in qualitative education research: A critical reading of ‘Understanding things from within’
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences|2025
4 cit.
10
The Dawn of the Phenomenology of Feelings
Philosophy Today|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Sonja Arndt
The University of Melbourne
2
Damian Cueni
University of Zurich
3
Delphi Carstens
University of the Western Cape
4
Matthieu Queloz
University of Bern
5
Elizabeth M. Frye
Appalachian State University
6
Craig A. Meyer
Texas A&M University – Kingsville
7
Alexandra Noble
John Radcliffe Hospital
8
Rachel Cristy
Princeton University
9
Amie Zimmer
St. John's College of Nursing
10
Oskar Szwabowski
Uniwersytet Pomorski w Słupsku

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Function-Based Conceptual Engineering and the Authority Problem
Mind|2022
75 cit.
2
The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
Analysis|2024
44 cit.
3
The shaken realist: Bernard Williams, the war, and philosophy as cultural critique
European Journal of Philosophy|2022
43 cit.
4
Genealogy, Evaluation, and Engineering
The Monist|2022
30 cit.
5
Nietzsche’s conceptual ethics
Inquiry|2023
22 cit.
6
The Dworkin–Williams debate: Liberty, conceptual integrity, and tragic conflict in politics
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research|2023
18 cit.
7
Virtue Ethics and the Morality System
Topoi|2023
18 cit.
8
Constructing liberty and equality – political, not juridical
Jurisprudence|2024
18 cit.
9
Internalism from the ethnographic stance: from self-indulgence to self-expression and corroborative sense-making
The Philosophical Quarterly|2024
18 cit.
10
Theorizing the Normative Significance of Critical Histories for International Law
Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international|2022
16 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Unknown
2
Martha C. Nussbaum
University of Chicago
3
Judith Butler
University of California, Berkeley
4
Haridimos Tsoukas
University of Cyprus
5
Roger Slee
University of London
6
Jacques Rancière
Université Paris 8
7
Michael Eldred
Sandia National Laboratories
8
Seán Hand
University of California, Santa Barbara
9
Jon R. Snyder
University of California, Santa Barbara
10
Patrick Mensah
Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Feminist Review|1991
28.1k cit.
2
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex".
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1995
5.6k cit.
3
Can the Subaltern Speak?
Die Philosophin|2003
4.2k cit.
4
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Theatre Journal|1988
4k cit.
5
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution : An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Unknown Journal|1988
2.9k cit.
6
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics.
MLN|1988
2.9k cit.
7
On Organizational Becoming: Rethinking Organizational Change
Organization Science|2002
2.7k cit.
8
The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
The Classical World|1987
2.5k cit.
9
CAPABILITIES AS FUNDAMENTAL ENTITLEMENTS: SEN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Feminist Economics|2003
2.5k cit.
10
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
World Literature Today|2000
2.3k cit.

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