Phil Dowe

2.3k total citations
43 papers, 916 citations indexed

About

Phil Dowe is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Phil Dowe has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 916 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 16 papers in Philosophy and 13 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Phil Dowe's work include Philosophy and History of Science (25 papers), Philosophy and Theoretical Science (13 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (13 papers). Phil Dowe is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (25 papers), Philosophy and Theoretical Science (13 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (13 papers). Phil Dowe collaborates with scholars based in Australia and United Kingdom. Phil Dowe's co-authors include Stephen Barker, Wesley C. Salmon, Merrilee H. Salmon and Jonathan Schaffer and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Synthese.

In The Last Decade

Phil Dowe

37 papers receiving 785 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Phil Dowe Australia 14 530 378 348 160 152 43 916
Otávio Bueno United States 19 775 1.5× 360 1.0× 270 0.8× 71 0.4× 179 1.2× 119 1.2k
Robert Pargetter Australia 16 418 0.8× 456 1.2× 456 1.3× 253 1.6× 60 0.4× 56 1.1k
Carl Gillett United States 13 488 0.9× 379 1.0× 231 0.7× 166 1.0× 103 0.7× 28 768
Anjan Chakravartty United States 17 808 1.5× 292 0.8× 294 0.8× 100 0.6× 141 0.9× 37 1.1k
Michael Tooley United States 14 340 0.6× 399 1.1× 450 1.3× 123 0.8× 73 0.5× 42 850
Michael J. Loux United States 12 394 0.7× 600 1.6× 529 1.5× 101 0.6× 81 0.5× 33 1.0k
Michael Strevens United States 18 696 1.3× 235 0.6× 399 1.1× 136 0.8× 59 0.4× 50 1.2k
Paul Horwich United States 21 687 1.3× 934 2.5× 981 2.8× 229 1.4× 139 0.9× 83 1.9k
Grover Maxwell United States 13 498 0.9× 220 0.6× 219 0.6× 141 0.9× 73 0.5× 31 964
Cynthia Macdonald United Kingdom 12 287 0.5× 515 1.4× 409 1.2× 284 1.8× 80 0.5× 41 979

Countries citing papers authored by Phil Dowe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Phil Dowe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Phil Dowe

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

All Works

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Dowe, Phil. (2009). Every Now and Then. The Journal of Philosophy. 106(12). 641–665. 1 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2009). Absences, Possible Causation, and the Problem of Non-Locality. The Monist. 92(1). 23–40. 13 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2009). Would-Cause Semantics. Philosophy of Science. 76(5). 701–711. 1 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2007). Constraints on Data in Worlds with Closed Timelike Curves. Philosophy of Science. 74(5). 724–735. 4 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2005). Galileo, Darwin, and Hawking: The Interplay of Science, Reason, and Religion. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2 indexed citations
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Barker, Stephen & Phil Dowe. (2005). Endurance is paradoxical. Analysis. 65(285). 69–74. 11 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2003). A dilemma for objective chance. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 153–164. 1 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2003). Cause and chance causation in an indeterministic world. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 48 indexed citations
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Barker, Stephen & Phil Dowe. (2003). Paradoxes of multi-location. Analysis. 63(278). 106–114. 27 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2001). Causal Loops and the Independence of Causal Facts. Philosophy of Science. 68(S3). S89–S97. 7 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2000). Leibniz on Causation. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania).
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Dowe, Phil. (2000). The Conserved Quantity Theory Defended. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 15(37). 11–31. 6 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2000). Causality and Explanation. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 51(1). 165–174. 12 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (2000). Physical Causation. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 267 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (1997). Chance and Providence. eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania). 2 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (1997). A Defense of Backwards in Time Causation Models in Quantum Mechanics. Synthese. 112(2). 233–246. 8 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (1996). Time's Arrow Today. Metascience. 5(2). 191–192. 8 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (1996). Backwards Causation and the Direction of Causal Processes. Mind. 105(418). 227–248. 25 indexed citations
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Dowe, Phil. (1992). Wesley Salmon's Process Theory of Causality and the Conserved Quantity Theory. Philosophy of Science. 59(2). 195–216. 145 indexed citations

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