Fred Feldman

9.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Fred Feldman is a scholar working on Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Feldman has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Philosophy, 9 papers in Political Science and International Relations and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Fred Feldman's work include Philosophical Ethics and Theory (12 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (9 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (8 papers). Fred Feldman is often cited by papers focused on Philosophical Ethics and Theory (12 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (9 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (8 papers). Fred Feldman collaborates with scholars based in United States and New Zealand. Fred Feldman's co-authors include J. L. Mackie, John Martin Fischer, Peter Vallentyne, Alan Gewirth, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, Roy W. Perrett, Saul A. Kripke, Ernest Sosa, R. M. Hare and Lennart Åqvist and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

In The Last Decade

Fred Feldman

77 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fred Feldman United States	22	1.8k	1.2k	531	504	439	83	3.0k
Robert Audi United States	30	1.6k 0.9×	998 0.8×	543 1.0×	458 0.9×	742 1.7×	176	3.2k
Judith Jarvis Thomson United States	25	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.5×	551 1.0×	445 0.9×	778 1.8×	77	3.7k
Christine M. Korsgaard United States	25	2.7k 1.5×	1.7k 1.4×	417 0.8×	974 1.9×	675 1.5×	56	4.2k
R. M. Hare United States	20	1.3k 0.7×	888 0.7×	317 0.6×	587 1.2×	538 1.2×	81	3.0k
Peter Railton United States	20	1.0k 0.6×	818 0.7×	422 0.8×	252 0.5×	356 0.8×	48	2.1k
Simon Blackburn United Kingdom	26	2.1k 1.2×	971 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	310 0.6×	429 1.0×	106	3.5k
John Martin Fischer United States	30	2.6k 1.5×	2.9k 2.4×	543 1.0×	309 0.6×	439 1.0×	185	4.3k
Stephen Darwall United States	24	1.4k 0.8×	869 0.7×	186 0.4×	889 1.8×	593 1.4×	108	2.7k
Michael Slote United States	22	938 0.5×	701 0.6×	187 0.4×	365 0.7×	453 1.0×	109	2.0k
Thomas Scanlon United States	11	1.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	234 0.4×	663 1.3×	438 1.0×	17	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Fred Feldman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Feldman

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Feldman, Fred. (2021). Scanlon Against Desertist Theories of Justice. The Journal of Ethics. 25(1). 1–12. 1 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (2018). Unconscious Pleasures and Pains: A Problem for Attitudinal Theories?. Utilitas. 30(4). 472–482. 4 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (2004). Pleasure and the good life : concerning the nature, varieties, and plausibility of hedonism. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 112 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (2004). Cahn on Foot on Happiness. Journal of Social Philosophy. 35(1). 3–7. 2 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (2000). The Termination Thesis. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 24. 98–115. 23 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1998). Living high and letting die: Our illusion of innocence. Noûs. 32(1). 3 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1998). Introduction to Ethics. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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Carriero, John, Peter J. Markie, Stephen Schiffer, et al.. (1997). Descartes's Meditations: Critical Essays. 20(3). 14–5. 2 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1995). Mill, Moore, and the Consistency of Qualified Hedonism. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 20. 318–331. 1 indexed citations

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Fischer, John Martin & Fred Feldman. (1993). Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death.. The Philosophical Review. 102(3). 416–416. 46 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred, et al.. (1993). Doing the Best We Can. An Essay in Informal Deontic Logic.. Noûs. 27(2). 264–264. 44 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1991). Some Puzzles About the Evil of Death. The Philosophical Review. 100(2). 205–205. 96 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1990). F. M. KAMM AND THE MIRROR OF TIME. Pacific philosophical quarterly. 71(1). 23–27. 5 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1989). On Dying as a Process. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 50(2). 375–375. 2 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1988). On the Advantages of Cooperativeness. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 13. 308–323. 1 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1986). WITTGENSTEIN ON RULES AND PRIVATE LANGUAGE - AN ELEMENTARY EXPOSITION - KRIPKE,S. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 46(4). 9 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1983). Obligations—Absolute, conditioned and conditional. Philosophia. 12(3-4). 257–272. 4 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred & Ernest Sosa. (1982). Essays on the Philosophy of Roderick M. Chisholm.. The Philosophical Review. 91(3). 476–476. 7 indexed citations

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Feldman, Fred. (1973). Discourse and Its Presuppositions. International Philosophical Quarterly. 13(2). 299–302.

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Feldman, Fred. (1973). On the Performatory Interpretation of the Cogito. The Philosophical Review. 82(3). 345–345. 4 indexed citations

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