Nigel Pleasants

589 total citations
26 papers, 264 citations indexed

About

Nigel Pleasants is a scholar working on Philosophy, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Nigel Pleasants has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 264 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Philosophy, 8 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Nigel Pleasants's work include Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (9 papers), Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (6 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 papers). Nigel Pleasants is often cited by papers focused on Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (9 papers), Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education (6 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 papers). Nigel Pleasants collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and South Sudan. Nigel Pleasants's co-authors include and has published in prestigious journals such as Theory Culture & Society, Political Studies and Synthese.

In The Last Decade

Nigel Pleasants

26 papers receiving 226 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nigel Pleasants United Kingdom	10	108	83	52	33	30	26	264
Robert Larmer Canada	8	77 0.7×	58 0.7×	34 0.7×	15 0.5×	26 0.9×	38	249
Michael Root United States	7	53 0.5×	119 1.4×	40 0.8×	27 0.8×	23 0.8×	16	282
Chrisoula Andreou United States	10	105 1.0×	48 0.6×	83 1.6×	26 0.8×	41 1.4×	43	275
Sabina Lovibond United Kingdom	7	138 1.3×	55 0.7×	33 0.6×	55 1.7×	37 1.2×	25	264
Ernst Tugendhat Germany	12	165 1.5×	105 1.3×	31 0.6×	66 2.0×	105 3.5×	45	388
Alexander Broadie United Kingdom	10	147 1.4×	60 0.7×	28 0.5×	60 1.8×	27 0.9×	52	322
Maria Baghramian Ireland	8	73 0.7×	83 1.0×	17 0.3×	15 0.5×	25 0.8×	28	207
Stephen Lehmann	4	105 1.0×	81 1.0×	15 0.3×	27 0.8×	16 0.5×	10	301
Elijah Millgram United States	11	181 1.7×	48 0.6×	105 2.0×	74 2.2×	47 1.6×	40	333
Thomas Aquinas United Kingdom	11	261 2.4×	113 1.4×	28 0.5×	74 2.2×	21 0.7×	32	454

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2025). Hinge-certainty and the asymmetricality of ‘deep moral disagreement’. Synthese. 205(5). 1 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2021). Excuse and justification: What’s explanation and understanding got to do with it?. European Journal of Social Theory. 24(3). 338–355. 3 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2018). The Structure of Moral Revolutions. Social Theory and Practice. 44(4). 567–592. 13 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2018). Free Will, Determinism and the “Problem” of Structure and Agency in the Social Sciences. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 49(1). 3–30. 14 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2017). Ordinary Men: Genocide, Determinism, Agency, and Moral Culpability. Philosophy of the Social Sciences. 48(1). 3–32. 5 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2015). The Question of the Holocaust's Uniqueness: Was it Something More Than or Different From Genocide?. Journal of Applied Philosophy. 33(3). 297–310. 3 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2010). Moral Argument Is Not Enough. Philosophical Topics. 38(1). 159–180. 12 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2009). Structure, Agency and Ontological Confusion: A Response to Hay. Political Studies. 57(4). 885–891. 4 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2008). Institutional Wrongdoing and Moral Perception. Journal of Social Philosophy. 39(1). 96–115. 18 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2008). Wittgenstein, Ethics and Basic Moral Certainty. Inquiry. 51(3). 241–267. 27 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2006). Nonsense on Stilts? Wittgenstein, Ethics, and the Lives of Animals. Inquiry. 49(4). 314–336. 6 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2004). The concept of learning from the study of the Holocaust. History of the Human Sciences. 17(2-3). 187–210. 2 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2003). Social Criticism for ‘Critical Critics’?. History of the Human Sciences. 16(4). 95–100. 1 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2002). Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory. 5 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (2000). Winch, Wittgenstein and the Idea of a critical social theory. History of the Human Sciences. 13(1). 78–91. 11 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (1999). Wittgenstein and the Idea of a Critical Social Theory: A Critique of Giddens, Habermas and Bhaskar. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 46 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (1998). Experimentation in the social sciences: cultural dope or reflexive agent?, a reflexive critique of cthnomethodology. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (1997). The Post-Positivist Dispute in Social Studies of Science and its Bearing on Social Theory. Theory Culture & Society. 14(3). 143–156. 3 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (1997). Free to act otherwise? A Wittgensteinian deconstruction of the concept of agency in contemporary social and political theory. History of the Human Sciences. 10(4). 1–28. 8 indexed citations

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Pleasants, Nigel. (1996). Nothing is Concealed: De‐centring Tacit Knowledge and Rules from Social Theory. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. 26(3). 233–255. 42 indexed citations

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