Fred Sommers

565 total citations
19 papers, 241 citations indexed

About

Fred Sommers is a scholar working on Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Fred Sommers has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 241 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Philosophy, 1 paper in Artificial Intelligence and 1 paper in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Fred Sommers's work include Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (1 paper), Semantic Web and Ontologies (1 paper) and Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (1 paper). Fred Sommers is often cited by papers focused on Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (1 paper), Semantic Web and Ontologies (1 paper) and Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (1 paper). Fred Sommers collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Fred Sommers's co-authors include William C. Purdy and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy and Mind.

In The Last Decade

Fred Sommers

17 papers receiving 178 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Fred Sommers United States 8 93 88 60 39 36 19 241
Paul Henle 7 129 1.4× 77 0.9× 71 1.2× 44 1.1× 20 0.6× 16 252
C. Anthony Anderson United States 9 168 1.8× 115 1.3× 126 2.1× 72 1.8× 37 1.0× 18 315
V. H. Dudman Australia 9 89 1.0× 84 1.0× 101 1.7× 32 0.8× 8 0.2× 30 230
Franz von Kutschera Germany 11 66 0.7× 112 1.3× 68 1.1× 33 0.8× 6 0.2× 62 260
H. Putnam United States 3 77 0.8× 72 0.8× 38 0.6× 36 0.9× 14 0.4× 6 207
Diego Marconi Italy 7 49 0.5× 62 0.7× 45 0.8× 14 0.4× 11 0.3× 34 194
Leonard Linsky United States 8 242 2.6× 136 1.5× 186 3.1× 104 2.7× 9 0.3× 30 449
Sylvain Bromberger United States 6 62 0.7× 37 0.4× 51 0.8× 52 1.3× 11 0.3× 7 179
G. B. KEENE China 3 51 0.5× 99 1.1× 47 0.8× 32 0.8× 4 0.1× 5 207
Guido Küng Switzerland 7 89 1.0× 31 0.4× 64 1.1× 39 1.0× 3 0.1× 23 172

Countries citing papers authored by Fred Sommers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fred Sommers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fred Sommers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Fred Sommers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Fred Sommers based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Fred Sommers. Fred Sommers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Sommers, Fred. (2008). RATIOCINATION: AN EMPIRICAL ACCOUNT. Ratio. 21(2). 115–133. 2 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (2005). Bar-Hillel's complaint. Philosophia. 33(1-4). 55–68. 1 indexed citations
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Purdy, William C., et al.. (2002). An Invitation to Formal Reasoning. The Logic of Terms. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 8(1). 97–97. 12 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1997). Putnam's Born-Again Realism. The Journal of Philosophy. 94(9). 453–453. 4 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1993). The world, the facts, and primary logic.. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. 34(2). 5 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1989). Predication in the logic terms.. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. 31(1). 9 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred, et al.. (1982). The Logic of Natural Language.. The Journal of Philosophy. 79(12). 786–786. 62 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1981). Are There Atomic Propositions?. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 6. 59–68.
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Sommers, Fred. (1978). The grammar of thought. Journal of Social and Biological Systems. 1(1). 39–51. 1 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1975). Distribution Matters. Mind. LXXXIV(1). 27–46. 6 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1971). Structural ontology. Philosophia. 1(1-2). 21–42. 13 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1970). I.—THE CALCULUS OF TERMS. Mind. LXXIX(313). 1–39. 21 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1969). On Concepts of Truth In Natural Languages. ˜The œreview of metaphysics. 23(2). 259–286. 7 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1969). Do we Need Identity?. The Journal of Philosophy. 66(15). 499–504. 7 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1966). Why Is There Something and Not Nothing?. Analysis. 26(6). 177–177. 2 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1964). A Program for Coherence. The Philosophical Review. 73(4). 522–522. 2 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1963). Meaning Relations and the Analytic. The Journal of Philosophy. 60(18). 524–524.
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Sommers, Fred. (1963). Types and Ontology. The Philosophical Review. 72(3). 327–327. 63 indexed citations
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Sommers, Fred. (1959). II.—THE ORDINARY LANGUAGE TREE. Mind. LXVIII(270). 160–185. 24 indexed citations

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