Peter Railton

7.5k total citations
48 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Peter Railton is a scholar working on Philosophy, Cognitive Neuroscience and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Railton has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Philosophy, 15 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Peter Railton's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (11 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers). Peter Railton is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (11 papers) and Political Philosophy and Ethics (8 papers). Peter Railton collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Peter Railton's co-authors include Martin E. P. Seligman, Chandra Sripada, Roy F. Baumeister, Allan Gibbard, Stephen Darwall, Gilbert Harman, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Jerrold Levinson, Arthur C. Danto and Noël Carroll and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and Perspectives on Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Peter Railton

40 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter Railton United States 20 1.0k 818 422 356 343 48 2.1k
Eric Schwitzgebel United States 26 1.0k 1.0× 1.5k 1.9× 660 1.6× 421 1.2× 508 1.5× 86 2.6k
Julia Annas United States 25 1.4k 1.4× 539 0.7× 225 0.5× 396 1.1× 548 1.6× 98 2.7k
Owen Flanagan United States 23 538 0.5× 998 1.2× 508 1.2× 348 1.0× 587 1.7× 78 2.1k
Linda Zagzebski United States 21 2.1k 2.0× 1.0k 1.2× 637 1.5× 700 2.0× 351 1.0× 79 2.9k
Tamar Szabó Gendler United States 17 727 0.7× 791 1.0× 557 1.3× 462 1.3× 425 1.2× 29 1.9k
Fred Feldman United States 22 1.8k 1.7× 1.2k 1.5× 531 1.3× 439 1.2× 370 1.1× 83 3.0k
Paul K. Moser United States 20 1.7k 1.7× 630 0.8× 876 2.1× 446 1.3× 178 0.5× 114 2.7k
Judith Jarvis Thomson United States 25 1.3k 1.3× 1.8k 2.2× 551 1.3× 778 2.2× 607 1.8× 77 3.7k
Amélie Oksenberg Rorty United States 22 734 0.7× 294 0.4× 209 0.5× 311 0.9× 219 0.6× 74 1.6k
Stephen Stich United States 25 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.5× 663 1.6× 478 1.3× 549 1.6× 75 2.4k

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All Works

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Railton, Peter. (2020). Comment on Susanna Siegel, The Rationality of Perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 101(3). 735–754. 1 indexed citations
2.
Railton, Peter. (2017). Naturalistic Realism in Metaethics. 43–57. 1 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (2017). Maximal Minimalism: Ruwen Ogien and Self-Affecting Actions. N° 22(2). 81–92. 1 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (2017). Author Reply: Affect, Value, Uncertainty, and Action. Emotion Review. 9(4). 354–355.
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Railton, Peter. (2016). Moral Learning: Conceptual foundations and normative relevance. Cognition. 167. 172–190. 49 indexed citations
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Seligman, Martin E. P., Peter Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, & Chandra Sripada. (2013). Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past. Perspectives on Psychological Science. 8(2). 119–141. 378 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (2010). Toward a Unified Account of Rationality in Belief, Desire, and Action. 2 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (2009). INTERNALISM FOR EXTERNALISTS. Philosophical Issues. 19(1). 166–181. 3 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (2008). “The Problem of Well-Being: Respect, Equality, and the Self”. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 3 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (2005). Reply to Ben Eggleston. Philosophical Studies. 126(3). 491–499. 1 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter, Gilbert Harman, & Judith Jarvis Thomson. (1998). Moral Explanation and Moral Objectivity. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 58(1). 175–175. 14 indexed citations
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Darwall, Stephen, Allan Gibbard, & Peter Railton. (1997). Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches. The Philosophical Quarterly. 48(192). 52 indexed citations
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Darwall, Stephen, Allan Gibbard, & Peter Railton. (1997). Moral discourse and practice. 65 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (1992). Some Questions About the Justification of Morality. Philosophical Perspectives. 6. 27–27. 8 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (1992). Nonfactualism about Normative Discourse. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 52(4). 961–961. 4 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (1989). Naturalism and Prescriptivity. Social Philosophy and Policy. 7(1). 151–174. 84 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (1988). How Thinking about Character and Utilitarianism Might Lead to Rethinking the Character of Utilitarianism. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 13. 398–416. 19 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (1986). Facts and Values. Philosophical Topics. 14(2). 5–31. 228 indexed citations
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Railton, Peter. (1986). Explanatory Asymmetry in Historical Materialism. Ethics. 97(1). 233–239.
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Railton, Peter. (1982). Costs and Benefits of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Response to Bantz and MacLean. PSA Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association. 1982(2). 261–271.

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