Elliott Sober

18.4k total citations · 6 hit papers
224 papers, 9.2k citations indexed

About

Elliott Sober is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Elliott Sober has authored 224 papers receiving a total of 9.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 94 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 53 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 42 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Elliott Sober's work include Philosophy and History of Science (88 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (49 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (30 papers). Elliott Sober is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (88 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (49 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (30 papers). Elliott Sober collaborates with scholars based in United States, New Zealand and United Kingdom. Elliott Sober's co-authors include David Sloan Wilson, Robert N. Brandon, David Sloan Wilson, Steven Hecht Orzack, Marc R. Forster, P. Holgate, William L. Fink, Richard C Lewontin, Christopher Hitchcock and Ellery Eells and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Elliott Sober

214 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosoph... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1986 1994 1993 1984 2002 200 400 600

Peers

Elliott Sober
Comparison fields: 5 of 195
  • History and Philosophy of Science 3.6k
  • Sociology and Political Science 3.0k
  • Genetics 1.9k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.3k
  • Philosophy 1.0k
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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Discrimination-Conduciveness and Observation Selection Effects
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5 85
6 10
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¿Escribió Darwin el "Origen" al revés?
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Parsimony Arguments in Science and Philosophy—A Test Case for Naturalism P
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Evolución, pensamiento poblacionaly esencialismo
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10
A Modest Proposal – a Review of John Earman’s Hume’s Abject Failure – the Miracles Argument
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11 11
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Morality and ‘Unto Others': Response to commentary discussion
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Symposium: Are There Laws in Biology?
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Evolution and Optimality: Feathers, Bowling Balls, and the Thesis of Adaptationism
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What is psychological egoism
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Marxismo e individualismo metodológico
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19 3
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Why Logically Equivalent Predicates May Pick out Different Properties
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