Nuel Belnap

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Nuel Belnap is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nuel Belnap has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 17 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Nuel Belnap's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science (22 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (20 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (13 papers). Nuel Belnap is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science (22 papers), Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (20 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (13 papers). Nuel Belnap collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Poland. Nuel Belnap's co-authors include Alan Ross Anderson, J. Michael Dunn, Michael Perloff, Ming Xu, Anil Gupta, John F. Horty, Mitchell Green, Michael Clark, Dorothy Grover and Joseph L. Camp and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and The Philosophical Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Nuel Belnap

72 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Entailment : the logic of relevance and necessity 1975 2026 1992 2009 1975 250 500 750
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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.

  1. Entailment : the logic of relevance and necessity
    1975 832 citations Alan Ross Anderson, Nuel Belnap et al. Princeton University Press eBooks profile →

Peers

Nuel Belnap
Michael Dummett United Kingdom
A. N. Prior New Zealand
Graham Priest Australia
Jaakko Hintikka United States
George Boolos United States
Rudolf Carnap United States
Richard C. Jeffrey United States
Solomon Feferman United States
Kit Fine United States
John P. Burgess United States
Michael Dummett United Kingdom
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Fields of papers citing papers by Nuel Belnap

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nuel Belnap

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nuel Belnap. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nuel Belnap 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 Nuel Belnap. Nuel Belnap 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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Belnap, Nuel, Thomas Müller, & Tomasz Placek. (2021). Branching Space-Times. 4 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel & Thomas Müller. (2013). CIFOL: Case-Intensional First Order Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic. 43(2-3). 393–437. 7 indexed citations
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Placek, Tomasz, et al.. (2013). On Topological Issues of Indeterminism. Erkenntnis. 79(S3). 403–436. 9 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel & Thomas Müller. (2013). BH-CIFOL: Case-Intensional First Order Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic. 43(5). 835–866. 7 indexed citations
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Perloff, Michael & Nuel Belnap. (2011). Future Contingents and the Battle Tomorrow. ˜The œreview of metaphysics. 64(3). 581. 5 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (2009). Truth Values, Neither-true-nor-false, and Supervaluations. Studia Logica. 91(3). 305–334. 3 indexed citations
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Müller, Thomas, et al.. (2007). Funny business in branching space-times: infinite modal correlations. Synthese. 164(1). 141–159. 19 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (2007). Propensities and probabilities. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 38(3). 593–625. 21 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (1993). On rigorous definitions. Philosophical Studies. 72(2-3). 115–146. 59 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (1991). Before refraining: Concepts for agency. Erkenntnis. 34(2). 137–169. 34 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (1990). Declaratives are not enough. Philosophical Studies. 59(1). 1–30. 32 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (1982). Gupta's rule of revision theory of truth. Journal of Philosophical Logic. 11(1). 103–116. 63 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (1981). Logica Docens and Relevance. Teaching Philosophy. 4(3). 419–427. 3 indexed citations
14.
Anderson, Alan Ross & Nuel Belnap. (1977). Entailment. Vol. 1. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 7(2). 6 indexed citations
15.
Anderson, Alan Ross, Nuel Belnap, & J. Michael Dunn. (1975). Entailment : the logic of relevance and necessity. Princeton University Press eBooks. 832 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grover, Dorothy, Joseph L. Camp, & Nuel Belnap. (1975). A prosentential theory of truth. Philosophical Studies. 27(2). 73–125. 98 indexed citations
17.
Belnap, Nuel, et al.. (1971). Chronique—Announcements. Dialogue. 10(3). 644–645. 1 indexed citations
18.
Dunn, J. Michael & Nuel Belnap. (1968). Homomorphisms of intensionally complemented distributive lattices. Mathematische Annalen. 176(1). 28–38. 6 indexed citations
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Belnap, Nuel. (1960). Entailment and relevance1. Journal of Symbolic Logic. 25(2). 144–146. 50 indexed citations
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Anderson, Alan Ross, Nuel Belnap, & John R. Wallace. (1960). Independent Axiom Schemata for the Pure Theory of Entailment. Mathematical logic quarterly. 6(1-6). 93–95. 5 indexed citations

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