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Philosophy, Science, and History

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Kimberly Brewer
Princeton University
2
Sophia M. Connell
University of Notre Dame
3
Emily Thomas
Durham University
4
David Builes
Princeton University
5
Jan M. Böhm
Unknown
6
Fabio Ceravolo
University of Leeds
7
Justin Mooney
University of Alberta
8
Michael Fuerstein
St. Olaf College
9
Nicolas Michel
University of Wuppertal
10
Ryan M. Nefdt
University of Cape Town

Rising Stars Papers

1
Karl Poppers kritischer Rationalismus heute
Mohr Siebeck eBooks|2025
37 cit.
2
How to ground powers
Analysis|2024
4 cit.
3
The gap in the evil-god challenge
Analysis|2024
1 cit.
4
Experience and Time: A Metaphysical Approach
Analytic Philosophy|2026
1 cit.
5
The Human Mind through the Lens of Language
The Philosophical Quarterly|2024
0 cit.
6
<i>Theoretical Linguistics</i> and the philosophy of linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics|2024
0 cit.
7
Humean Rationalism
Philosophical Studies|2024
0 cit.
8
:<i>Aristotle’s Empiricism</i>
HOPOS The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science|2024
0 cit.
9
<i>Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain</i>
The Philosophical Review|2024
0 cit.
10
Pullum’s philosophy of linguistics: towards a unified framework
Journal of Linguistics|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Daniela Gandorfer
University of Westminster
2
James Nguyen
London School of Economics and Political Science
3
Rasmus Jaksland
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
4
Michael Roubach
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
5
Clare Batty
University of Kentucky
6
Mark Lance
Georgetown University
7
Claudia Hoock
Unknown
8
Thomas Ricketts
University of Pittsburgh
9
Lisa Krall
University of Cologne
10
Paul Rubery
Stony Brook University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Karl Poppers kritischer Rationalismus heute
Mohr Siebeck eBooks|2025
37 cit.
2
Telling Gender: The Pragmatics and Ethics of Gender Ascriptions
Ergo an Open Access Journal of Philosophy|2023
35 cit.
3
Understanding philosophy
Inquiry|2022
28 cit.
4
Duality, Underdetermination, and the Uncommon Common Core
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science|2024
22 cit.
5
Down and Dirty in the Field of Play: Startup Societies, Cryptostatecraft, and Critical Complicity
Law and Critique|2022
21 cit.
6
A trilemma for naturalized metaphysics
Ratio|2022
8 cit.
7
The many problems of spacetime emergence in quantum gravity
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science|2023
8 cit.
8
Distinguishing two (unsound) arguments for quantum social science
European Journal for Philosophy of Science|2023
6 cit.
9
Naturalized metaphysics or displacing metaphysicians to save metaphysics
Synthese|2023
5 cit.
10
Decoherence, appearance, and reality in agential realism
European Journal for Philosophy of Science|2023
4 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Rudolf Carnap
University of Vienna
2
James Ladyman
University of Bristol
3
Joachim Schwermer
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
4
Lisa A. Mazzei
University of Oregon
5
Michaël Friedman
University of Bonn
6
Jan Slaby
Freie Universität Berlin
7
Jonas Olson
Stockholm University
8
Barry Smith
University of Minnesota
9
Theodor W. Adorno
Moore College of Art and Design
10
Achille C. Varzi
Columbia University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The OBO Foundry: coordinated evolution of ontologies to support biomedical data integration
Nature Biotechnology|2007
2.6k cit.
2
Logical Foundations of Probability.
The Journal of Philosophy|1951
2.4k cit.
3
Explanation and Scientific Understanding
The Journal of Philosophy|1974
1.4k cit.
4
Testability and Meaning
Philosophy of Science|1936
1.3k cit.
5
An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability
Climatic Change|2000
1.3k cit.
6
Relations in biomedical ontologies
Genome biology|2005
1k cit.
7
What is structural realism?
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A|1998
869 cit.
8
What is a complex system?
European Journal for Philosophy of Science|2012
791 cit.
9
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Unknown Journal|2007
704 cit.
10
Introduction to the Sociology of Music.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1977
668 cit.

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