Ronald de Sousa

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ronald de Sousa is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Philosophy and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald de Sousa has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Social Psychology, 11 papers in Philosophy and 9 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Ronald de Sousa's work include Emotions and Moral Behavior (10 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 papers). Ronald de Sousa is often cited by papers focused on Emotions and Moral Behavior (10 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (7 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 papers). Ronald de Sousa collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. Ronald de Sousa's co-authors include Robert M. Gordon, Terence Irwin, Jennifer Radden, Robert M. Gordon and Marcia Cavell and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The Philosophical Review and The Journal of Philosophy.

In The Last Decade

Ronald de Sousa

29 papers receiving 802 citations

Hit Papers

The Rationality of Emotion 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 100 200 300 400 500
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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. The Rationality of Emotion
    1987 507 citations Ronald de Sousa Philosophy and Rhetoric profile →

Peers

Ronald de Sousa
Jennifer Cole Wright United States
Bryce Huebner United States
Patricia Greenspan United States
Maury Silver United States
Ron Mallon United States
Oliver R. Goodenough United States
Kevin Tobia United States
Jonathan Phillips United States
Christophe Heintz Austria
Nina Strohminger United States
Jennifer Cole Wright United States
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ronald de Sousa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2022). Who Needs Values When We Have Valuing? Comments on Jean Moritz Müller,The World-Directedness of Emotional Feeling. Emotion Review. 14(4). 257–261. 1 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2022). What Philosophy Contributes to Emotion Science. Philosophies. 7(4). 87–87.
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2010). Evolution, Thinking, and Rationality. Princeton University Press eBooks. 289–300. 1 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2009). The Mind's Bermuda Triangle: Philosophy of Emotions and Empirical Science. Oxford University Press eBooks. 7 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2007). Truth, Authenticity, and Rationality. dialectica. 61(3). 323–345. 20 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2003). Perversion and Death. The Monist. 86(1). 90–114. 2 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2002). Fringe Consciousness and the Multifariousness of Emotions. 1 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2002). I—Ronald de Sousa. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 76(1). 247–263. 30 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (2001). Moral Emotions. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice. 4(2). 109–126. 26 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de & Jennifer Radden. (2000). Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 60(2). 492–492. 45 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (1998). Desire and Serendipity. Midwest Studies in Philosophy. 22. 120–134. 2 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de, et al.. (1997). Die Rationalität des Gefühls. Suhrkamp eBooks. 6 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (1994). Individualism and Local Control. Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume. 20. 185–205. 1 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (1991). Rational analysis: Too rational for comfort?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 14(3). 492–492. 1 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (1990). The sociology of sociobiology. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 4(3). 271–283. 2 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (1989). Kinds of kinds: Individuality and biological species. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science. 3(2). 119–135. 5 indexed citations
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Cavell, Marcia, Robert M. Gordon, & Ronald de Sousa. (1989). The Structure of Emotions.. The Journal of Philosophy. 86(9). 493–493.
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Sousa, Ronald de. (1988). Seizing the Hedgehog by the Tail: Taylor on the Self and Agency. Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 18(3). 421–432. 2 indexed citations
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Sousa, Ronald de. (1987). The Rationality of Emotion. Philosophy and Rhetoric. 22(10). 507 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sousa, Ronald de & Terence Irwin. (1980). Plato's Moral Theory: The Early and Middle Dialogues. Phoenix. 34(1). 79–79. 57 indexed citations

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