Bernard Williams

29.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
121 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Bernard Williams is a scholar working on Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Bernard Williams has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Philosophy, 12 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 4 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Bernard Williams's work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (12 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (9 papers) and Classical Philosophy and Thought (6 papers). Bernard Williams is often cited by papers focused on Political Philosophy and Ethics (12 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (9 papers) and Classical Philosophy and Thought (6 papers). Bernard Williams collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Bernard Williams's co-authors include J. J. C. Smart, Thomas Nagel, Maurice Meilleur, René Descartes, Isaiah Berlín, Michael Hooker, Amartya Sen, Ravi Kanbur, John Muellbauer and Geoffrey Hawthorn and has published in prestigious journals such as The Economic Journal, BioEssays and Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry.

In The Last Decade

Bernard Williams

105 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Ethics and the Limits of Philos... 1973 2026 1990 2008 2006 1981 2002 1973 1973 250 500 750 1000

Peers

Bernard Williams
Comparison fields: 5 of 158
  • Philosophy 3.2k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.7k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 1.6k
  • Political Science and International Relations 1.6k
  • Social Psychology 724
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
Ethics, a matter of style? Introduction to the French edition
4
2
Shallow groundwater temperatures and the urban heat island effect: the first U.K. city-wide geothermal map to support development of ground source heating systems strategy
3
3
Wahrheit und Wahrhaftigkeit
4
4 144
5
Vérité et véracité : essai de généalogie
1
6
GCSE citizenship studies
1
7
Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy
12
8
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays
8
9 150
10 39
11
La fortune morale
0
12
L'éthique et les limites de la philosophie
11
13
The Standard of living : the Tanner lectures, Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1985
10
14
Descartes : das Vorhaben der reinen philosophischen Untersuchung
2
15
Education and values : the Richard Peters lectures, delivered at the Institute of Education, University of London, spring term, 1985
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16 11
17
Utilitarianism and beyond
6
18
Report of the Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship
21
19
Problems of the self philosophical papers 1956-1972 breakdown →
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20
British analytical philosophy
20

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