John MacFarlane

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

John MacFarlane is a scholar working on Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John MacFarlane has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Philosophy, 20 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 11 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in John MacFarlane's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science (20 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (17 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (11 papers). John MacFarlane is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science (20 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (17 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (11 papers). John MacFarlane collaborates with scholars based in United States. John MacFarlane's co-authors include Niko Kolodny and Colin McGinn and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

In The Last Decade

John MacFarlane

32 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Assessment Sensitivity

2014 361 citations John MacFarlane Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
John MacFarlane United States	14	1.4k	1.2k	400	371	367	37	1.9k
Herman Cappelen United States	20	1.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.9×	331 0.8×	477 1.3×	282 0.8×	63	2.0k
Stephen Schiffer United States	21	1.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	420 1.1×	232 0.6×	325 0.9×	69	1.6k
Ernest Lepore United States	18	876 0.6×	1.0k 0.9×	378 0.9×	302 0.8×	370 1.0×	55	1.9k
Karen Bennett Portugal	17	778 0.5×	953 0.8×	547 1.4×	188 0.5×	159 0.4×	63	1.6k
Paul Horwich United States	21	981 0.7×	934 0.8×	687 1.7×	229 0.6×	263 0.7×	83	1.9k
Keith DeRose United States	20	2.3k 1.6×	1.6k 1.3×	352 0.9×	667 1.8×	567 1.5×	41	2.5k
John Hawthorne United States	23	2.6k 1.8×	2.1k 1.8×	731 1.8×	902 2.4×	575 1.6×	120	3.3k
Nathan Salmón United States	18	982 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	480 1.2×	151 0.4×	398 1.1×	64	1.6k
François Récanati France	24	1.2k 0.9×	1.6k 1.3×	238 0.6×	334 0.9×	494 1.3×	106	2.6k
Stephen Yablo United States	23	1.0k 0.7×	1.3k 1.1×	746 1.9×	322 0.9×	281 0.8×	59	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John MacFarlane

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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MacFarlane, John. (2024). Why future contingents are not all false*. Analytic Philosophy. 66(2). 226–240.

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MacFarlane, John. (2023). Belief: What is it Good for?. Erkenntnis. 90(3). 847–864.

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MacFarlane, John. (2020). Indeterminacy as Indecision, Lecture III: Indeterminacy as Indecision. The Journal of Philosophy. 117(11). 643–667. 7 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2020). Indeterminacy as Indecision, Lecture I: Vagueness and Communication. The Journal of Philosophy. 117(11). 593–616. 6 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2020). Indeterminacy as Indecision, Lecture II: Seeing through the Clouds. The Journal of Philosophy. 117(11). 617–642. 2 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2020). Philosophical Logic: A Contemporary Introduction. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2019). On Probabilistic Knowledge. Res Philosophica. 97(1). 97–108. 5 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2016). Replies to Raffman, Stanley, and Wright. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 92(1). 197–202. 2 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2014). Assessment Sensitivity. Oxford University Press eBooks. 361 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kolodny, Niko & John MacFarlane. (2010). Ifs and Oughts. The Journal of Philosophy. 107(3). 115–143. 173 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2009). Varieties of Disagreement. 3 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2008). Brandom’s Demarcation of Logic. Philosophical Topics. 36(2). 55–62. 2 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2008). Boghossian, Bellarmine, and Bayes. Philosophical Studies. 141(3). 391–398. 3 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2007). Nonindexical contextualism. Synthese. 166(2). 231–250. 142 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2007). Relativism and disagreement. Philosophical Studies. 132(1). 17–31. 166 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2006). The Things We (Sorta Kinda) Believe. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 73(1). 218–224. 2 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2005). XIV*-MAKING SENSE OF RELATIVE TRUTH. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 105(3). 321–339. 122 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2004). McDowell's Kantianism*. Theoria. 70(2-3). 250–265. 1 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2001). Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to Carnap (review). Journal of the history of philosophy. 39(3). 454–456. 1 indexed citations

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MacFarlane, John. (2000). What is Modeled by Truth in All Models.

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