David Spurrett

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

David Spurrett is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, David Spurrett has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 9 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in David Spurrett's work include Philosophy and History of Science (17 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (11 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (9 papers). David Spurrett is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (17 papers), Embodied and Extended Cognition (11 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (9 papers). David Spurrett collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, United States and United Kingdom. David Spurrett's co-authors include Don Ross, David Papineau, Carla Sharp, Stephen J. Cowley, Rudy E. Vuchinich, Harold Kincaid, Andre Hofmeyr, Jacques Rousseau, Bruce Biccard and Giovanna Colombetti and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Frontiers in Psychology.

In The Last Decade

David Spurrett

43 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Complexity and post-modernism: understanding complex systems 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 250 500 750 1000

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Spurrett South Africa 14 359 339 187 167 164 49 1.7k
Kenneth D. Bailey United States 19 446 1.2× 657 1.9× 73 0.4× 70 0.4× 51 0.3× 82 2.5k
Érvín Lásźló United States 19 319 0.9× 298 0.9× 62 0.3× 95 0.6× 90 0.5× 125 1.4k
Raymond Hubbard United States 21 220 0.6× 344 1.0× 105 0.6× 57 0.3× 76 0.5× 57 2.1k
Michael E. Doherty United States 19 360 1.0× 265 0.8× 210 1.1× 240 1.4× 224 1.4× 62 2.1k
Paul Cilliers South Africa 19 468 1.3× 388 1.1× 30 0.2× 60 0.4× 46 0.3× 34 1.8k
L. Jonathan Cohen United Kingdom 25 170 0.5× 381 1.1× 470 2.5× 338 2.0× 661 4.0× 116 3.3k
Maya Bar‐Hillel Israel 28 508 1.4× 513 1.5× 221 1.2× 467 2.8× 283 1.7× 65 3.3k
D. C. Phillips United States 23 291 0.8× 449 1.3× 86 0.5× 67 0.4× 80 0.5× 80 2.2k
Joshua Klayman United States 16 510 1.4× 755 2.2× 296 1.6× 577 3.5× 176 1.1× 23 3.4k
Till Grüne‐Yanoff Sweden 20 106 0.3× 363 1.1× 64 0.3× 180 1.1× 235 1.4× 61 1.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Spurrett, David, Giovanna Colombetti, & John Sutton. (2025). Introduction: Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm. Topoi. 44(2). 345–351. 2 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (2024). On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies. Topoi. 43(3). 821–832. 13 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David, et al.. (2023). Fashioning affordances: a critical approach to clothing as an affordance transforming technology. Philosophical Psychology. 37(7). 1899–1923. 7 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David, et al.. (2023). Hostile Scaffolding. Philosophical Papers. 52(1). 53–82. 38 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (2022). Complexity, Valence, and Consciousness. Biological Theory. 18(3). 197–199. 3 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (2016). Does intragenomic conflict predict intrapersonal conflict?. Biology & Philosophy. 31(3). 313–333. 4 indexed citations
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Govender, P, David Spurrett, & Bruce Biccard. (2015). Predictors of peri-operative risk acceptance by South African vascular surgery patients at a tertiary level hospital. Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia. 21(3). 70–76. 3 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David, et al.. (2012). Gambling Participation and Problem Gambling Severity among Rural and Peri-Urban Poor South African Adults in KwaZulu-Natal. Journal of Gambling Studies. 29(3). 417–433. 19 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (2012). What is to be Done? Why Reward is Difficult to Do Without. Frontiers in Psychology. 3. 412–412.
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Spurrett, David, et al.. (2011). Reforming healthcare in South Africa : what role for the private sector?. 3 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David, et al.. (2010). It's not just the subjects – there are too many WEIRD researchers. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33(2-3). 104–105. 22 indexed citations
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Ross, Don, Carla Sharp, Rudy E. Vuchinich, & David Spurrett. (2008). Midbrain Mutiny: The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling: Economic Theory and Cognitive Science. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 1. 6 indexed citations
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Ross, Don, et al.. (2007). Distributed Cognition and the Will: Individual Volition and Social Context. MIT Press eBooks. 33 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (2006). Reductionisms and physicalisms. South African Journal of Philosophy. 25(2). 159–170. 2 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (2005). Computer-supported development of critical reasoning skills. The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (The University of the West Indies). 1(2). 57–69. 1 indexed citations
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Ross, Don & David Spurrett. (2004). What to say to a skeptical metaphysician: A defense manual for cognitive and behavioral scientists. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27(5). 603–627. 37 indexed citations
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Cowley, Stephen J. & David Spurrett. (2003). ‘Putting apes (body and language) together again’, a review article of Savage-Rumbaugh, S., Taylor, T. J., and Shanker, S. G. Apes, Language, and the Human Mind (Oxford: 1999) and Clark, A. Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again (MIT: 1997). CogPrints (University of Southampton). 1 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (2000). Bhaskar on Open and Closed Systems. South African Journal of Philosophy. 19(3). 188–209. 4 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (1999). Lyotard and the Postmodern Misunderstanding of Physics. Theoria. 46(93). 1 indexed citations
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Spurrett, David. (1998). Transcendental realism defended: a response to Allan. South African Journal of Philosophy. 17(3). 198–210. 2 indexed citations

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