Peter Lipton

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Lipton is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Lipton has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 14 papers in Philosophy and 7 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Peter Lipton's work include Philosophy and History of Science (23 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (13 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 papers). Peter Lipton is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (23 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (13 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (7 papers). Peter Lipton collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Peter Lipton's co-authors include Peter Milne, Hilary� Kornblith, Paul Hoyningen‐Huene, Jonathan Vogel, John Worrall, Edward Stein, Martin Kusch, Alasdair Breckenridge, Helen M. Wallace and Howard L. McLeod and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Reviews Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Peter Lipton

42 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Inference to the Best Explanation 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 250 500 750
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. Inference to the Best Explanation
    2003 969 citations Peter Lipton profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Lipton United Kingdom 19 954 675 316 310 273 46 2.1k
William Demopoulos Canada 13 1.8k 1.8× 656 1.0× 265 0.8× 636 2.1× 242 0.9× 40 2.7k
Michael D. Resnik United States 21 1.2k 1.3× 680 1.0× 386 1.2× 752 2.4× 346 1.3× 60 3.0k
Ilkka Niiniluoto Finland 20 815 0.9× 445 0.7× 347 1.1× 213 0.7× 258 0.9× 105 1.8k
Stephan Hartmann Germany 21 838 0.9× 386 0.6× 436 1.4× 156 0.5× 261 1.0× 87 2.1k
Peter Achinstein United States 20 830 0.9× 362 0.5× 172 0.5× 265 0.9× 172 0.6× 75 1.6k
Peter Machamer United States 13 1.2k 1.2× 291 0.4× 153 0.5× 260 0.8× 339 1.2× 51 2.2k
Michael Strevens United States 18 696 0.7× 399 0.6× 162 0.5× 235 0.8× 184 0.7× 50 1.2k
Michaël Friedman United States 30 1.9k 2.0× 879 1.3× 151 0.5× 836 2.7× 195 0.7× 133 3.5k
James Ladyman United Kingdom 24 2.1k 2.2× 633 0.9× 346 1.1× 860 2.8× 351 1.3× 79 3.8k
Pierre Duhem United States 11 856 0.9× 321 0.5× 103 0.3× 165 0.5× 235 0.9× 38 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Lipton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Lipton

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All Works

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Lipton, Peter. (2007). Alien Abduction: Inference to the Best Explanation and the Management of Testimony. Episteme. 4(3). 238–251. 25 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter, et al.. (2006). What can Bas believe? Musgrave and van Fraassen on observability. Analysis. 66(291). 226–233. 9 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (2005). Testing Hypotheses: Prediction and Prejudice. Science. 307(5707). 219–221. 75 indexed citations
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Breckenridge, Alasdair, Klaus Lindpaintner, Peter Lipton, et al.. (2004). Pharmacogenetics: ethical problems and solutions. Nature Reviews Genetics. 5(9). 676–680. 29 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (2004). Discussion ? epistemic options. Philosophical Studies. 121(2). 147–158. 17 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (2003). Nuffield Council on Bioethics consultation. Pharmacogenomics. 4(1). 91–95. 3 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (2003). Pharmacogenetics: the ethical issues. The Pharmacogenomics Journal. 3(1). 14–16. 34 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter & John Worrall. (2000). Tracking Track Records. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 74. 20 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1999). All Else Being Equal. Philosophy. 74(2). 155–168. 46 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1998). The Best Explanation of a Scientific Paper. Philosophy of Science. 65(3). 406–410. 5 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1998). The epistemology of testimony. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 29(1). 1–31. 86 indexed citations
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Rees, M. J., Mark Weatherall, Stefan Collini, et al.. (1998). Cambridge Contributions. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1995). Theory, evidence, and explanation. 5 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1995). Popper and Reliabilism. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 39. 31–43. 1 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1994). Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993, pp. 421, £30.00. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 45(3). 929–932. 1 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1992). The seductive-nomological model. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 23(4). 691–698. 2 indexed citations
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Stein, Edward & Peter Lipton. (1989). Where guesses come from: Evolutionary epistemology and the anomaly of guided variation. Biology & Philosophy. 4(1). 33–56. 18 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1987). Skepticism and Naturalism. Idealistic Studies. 17(3). 271–273. 7 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1987). A real contrast. Analysis. 47(4). 207–208. 7 indexed citations
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Lipton, Peter. (1980). Concepts of Reduction in Physical Science. International Studies in Philosophy. 12(1). 92–93. 2 indexed citations

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