Jonathan Schaffer

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Schaffer is a scholar working on Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Schaffer has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Philosophy, 42 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 26 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Schaffer's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science (42 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (38 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (26 papers). Jonathan Schaffer is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science (42 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (38 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (26 papers). Jonathan Schaffer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Netherlands. Jonathan Schaffer's co-authors include David Rosé, Joshua Knobe, Jenann Ismael, Wesley Buckwalter, Zoltán Szabó, Michael Townsen Hicks, Barry Loewer, Kevin Tobia, Luke Sato and Robert A. Greenes and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Schaffer

69 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Monism: The Priority of the Whole 2009 2026 2014 2020 2009 2015 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Monism: The Priority of the Whole
    2009 459 citations Jonathan Schaffer The Philosophical Review profile →
  2. Grounding in the image of causation
    2015 253 citations Jonathan Schaffer Philosophical Studies profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jonathan Schaffer United States 34 2.3k 2.3k 1.5k 618 466 70 3.4k
Theodore Sider United States 27 2.4k 1.1× 3.2k 1.4× 1.9k 1.3× 508 0.8× 449 1.0× 76 4.0k
Alexander Bird United Kingdom 27 1.3k 0.6× 1.2k 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 451 0.7× 197 0.4× 98 2.6k
John Hawthorne United States 23 2.6k 1.1× 2.1k 0.9× 731 0.5× 902 1.5× 575 1.2× 120 3.3k
D. M. Armstrong Australia 27 2.0k 0.9× 2.4k 1.1× 1.6k 1.1× 772 1.2× 413 0.9× 104 4.1k
Terence Horgan United States 27 1.4k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 852 0.6× 962 1.6× 247 0.5× 89 2.8k
E. J. Lowe United Kingdom 24 1.2k 0.5× 1.3k 0.6× 848 0.6× 367 0.6× 263 0.6× 152 2.2k
Peter van Inwagen United States 30 2.1k 0.9× 1.5k 0.7× 685 0.5× 1.1k 1.8× 204 0.4× 119 3.2k
Christopher Peacocke United States 28 2.4k 1.0× 2.6k 1.2× 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 2.2× 424 0.9× 106 4.6k
James Woodward United States 29 804 0.3× 669 0.3× 2.0k 1.4× 710 1.1× 589 1.3× 80 3.7k
Frank Jackson Australia 23 1.5k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 891 0.6× 930 1.5× 225 0.5× 76 2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jonathan Schaffer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jonathan Schaffer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Schaffer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jonathan Schaffer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jonathan Schaffer 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 Jonathan Schaffer. Jonathan Schaffer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2019). Taking causing out of Bennett'sMaking Things Up. Inquiry. 63(7). 722–744. 5 indexed citations
2.
Schaffer, Jonathan. (2018). Laws for Metaphysical Explanation. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 82. 1–22. 13 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2018). Confessions of a schmentencite: towards an explicit semantics. Inquiry. 64(5-6). 593–623. 5 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan, et al.. (2017). Cause without Default. Oxford University Press eBooks. 16 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2016). Social construction as grounding; or: fundamentality for feminists, a reply to Barnes and Mikkola. Philosophical Studies. 174(10). 2449–2465. 37 indexed citations
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Rosé, David & Jonathan Schaffer. (2015). Folk Mereology is Teleological. Noûs. 51(2). 238–270. 36 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2014). Book Review: Theodore Sider, Writing the Book of the World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, xiv + 336 pp.. The Philosophical Review. 1 indexed citations
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Buckwalter, Wesley & Jonathan Schaffer. (2013). Knowledge, Stakes, and Mistakes. Noûs. 49(2). 201–234. 48 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2012). DISCONNECTION AND RESPONSIBILITY. Legal Theory. 18(4). 399–435. 20 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2010). The Internal Relatedness of All Things. Mind. 119(474). 341–376. 85 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2009). THE LEAST DISCERNING AND MOST PROMISCUOUS TRUTHMAKER. The Philosophical Quarterly. 60(239). 307–324. 119 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2008). The Contrast‐sensitivity of Knowledge Ascriptions. Social Epistemology. 22(3). 235–245. 25 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2004). Of Ghostly and Mechanical Events*. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 68(1). 230–244. 5 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2004). Two Conceptions of Sparse Properties*. Pacific philosophical quarterly. 85(1). 92–102. 86 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2003). Overdetermining Causes. Philosophical Studies. 114(1-2). 23–45. 51 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2003). Principled Chances. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 54(1). 27–41. 15 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2001). Knowledge, relevant alternatives and missed clues. Analysis. 61(271). 202–208. 5 indexed citations
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Schaffer, Jonathan. (2001). Knowledge, relevant alternatives and missed clues. Analysis. 61(3). 202–208. 13 indexed citations
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Sato, Luke, et al.. (1997). The PartnerWeb Project: a component-based approach to enterprise-wide information integration and dissemination.. PubMed. 359–63. 4 indexed citations

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