Ronald N. Giere

11.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
86 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Ronald N. Giere is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Ronald N. Giere has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 13 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Ronald N. Giere's work include Philosophy and History of Science (40 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (10 papers) and Science and Climate Studies (9 papers). Ronald N. Giere is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (40 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (10 papers) and Science and Climate Studies (9 papers). Ronald N. Giere collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and United Kingdom. Ronald N. Giere's co-authors include Jeffrey S. Poland, Barbara Von Eckardt, Larry Laudan, Philip Kitcher, Barton Moffatt, Alan Richardson, Isaac Levi, Richard S. Westfall, Stephen E. Braude and Wesley C. Salmon and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Biometrics and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ronald N. Giere

83 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Explaining Science

1988 909 citations Ronald N. Giere profile →
Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach.

1991 850 citations Ronald N. Giere et al. profile →
Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth

1978 394 citations Ronald N. Giere, Larry Laudan The American Historical Review profile →
Science without laws

1999 289 citations Ronald N. Giere Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ronald N. Giere United States	26	2.6k	1.0k	750	729	729	86	5.6k
Larry Laudan United States	31	2.6k 1.0×	461 0.5×	383 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.6×	99	5.8k
Nancy Cartwright United Kingdom	36	3.9k 1.5×	580 0.6×	321 0.4×	1.5k 2.1×	1.1k 1.6×	119	9.4k
Thomas Kühn Germany	19	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	577 0.8×	2.1k 2.8×	665 0.9×	72	9.9k
Michael Scriven United States	36	1.2k 0.5×	2.2k 2.2×	889 1.2×	963 1.3×	814 1.1×	203	8.9k
Carl G. Hempel United States	20	2.5k 1.0×	396 0.4×	473 0.6×	1.2k 1.6×	1.2k 1.6×	63	6.7k
Philip Kitcher United States	42	3.9k 1.5×	632 0.6×	525 0.7×	2.3k 3.1×	2.1k 2.9×	184	8.8k
Mary Hesse United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.4×	567 0.6×	424 0.6×	934 1.3×	685 0.9×	73	5.1k
Ernest Nagel United States	25	1.7k 0.7×	464 0.5×	368 0.5×	1.2k 1.6×	776 1.1×	77	6.5k
T. W. Hutchison United Kingdom	26	1.2k 0.5×	504 0.5×	386 0.5×	2.5k 3.5×	716 1.0×	111	11.1k
Nelson Goodman United States	25	1.4k 0.5×	446 0.4×	608 0.8×	854 1.2×	1.4k 1.9×	120	7.2k

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All Works

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2015). Feyerabend's perspectivism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 57. 137–141. 6 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2012). A New Program for the Philosophy of Science?. Perspectives on Science. 20(3). 339–343. 4 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2012). Scientific cognition: human centered but not human bound. Philosophical Explorations. 15(2). 199–206. 13 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2011). Distributed Cognition in the Lab Science as Psychology Sense-Making and Identity in Science Practice by Lisa M. Osbeck, Nancy J. Nersessian, Kareen R. Malone, and Wendy C. Newstetter Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011. 287 pp. $90, £55. ISBN 9780521882071. Science. 333(6039). 159–160. 3 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2009). Representing with Physical Models. PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh). 131(4). 1948–54. 4 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2009). Scientific perspectivism: behind the stage door. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 40(2). 221–223. 16 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2006). Scientific Perspectivism. 337 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2003). Computation and Agency in Scientific Cognition. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 2 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N., et al.. (2003). Representation and Activity. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 25(25). 1 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (2001). A New Framework for Teaching Scientific Reasoning. Argumentation. 15(1). 21–33. 23 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N. & Alan Richardson. (1996). Origins of logical positivism. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology. 12(1). 103–6. 2 indexed citations

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Richardson, Alan & Ronald N. Giere. (1996). Origins of Logical Empiricism. Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science, Vol. XVI. 5 indexed citations

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Kitcher, Philip & Ronald N. Giere. (1991). Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach.. The Journal of Philosophy. 88(3). 163–163. 175 indexed citations

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Kosso, Peter & Ronald N. Giere. (1991). Explaining Science.. Noûs. 25(3). 386–386.

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Giere, Ronald N. & Steven French. (1989). Explaining Science: A Cognitive Approach. American Journal of Physics. 57(6). 572–573. 6 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (1979). Understanding scientific reasoning. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 320 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N. & Larry Laudan. (1978). Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth. The American Historical Review. 83(3). 688–688. 394 indexed citations breakdown →

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Savage, Leonard J., Ronald N. Giere, Robert E. Butts, et al.. (1977). Logic, Laws, and Life. University of Pittsburgh Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N.. (1977). Publications by Allan Birnbaum. Synthese. 36(1). 15–17. 2 indexed citations

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Giere, Ronald N., et al.. (1974). Foundations of Scientific Method: The Nineteenth Century.. Biometrics. 30(2). 371–371. 83 indexed citations

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