Ruth Garrett Millikan

14.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Ruth Garrett Millikan is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruth Garrett Millikan has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 17 papers in Philosophy and 14 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Ruth Garrett Millikan's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science (20 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (12 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (11 papers). Ruth Garrett Millikan is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science (20 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (12 papers) and Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (11 papers). Ruth Garrett Millikan collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and India. Ruth Garrett Millikan's co-authors include Jay F. Rosenberg, Julia Tanney, Ralph Wedgwood, Christopher Hookway, Jerry A. Fodor, Crispin Wright, Alexander Miller, John F. Post, Philip Pettit and John McDowell and has published in prestigious journals such as Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The Philosophical Review and The Journal of Philosophy.

In The Last Decade

Ruth Garrett Millikan

64 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Language, Thought, and Ot... 1984 2026 1998 2012 1984 500 1000 1.5k
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. Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories
    1984 2.0k citations Ruth Garrett Millikan The MIT Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ruth Garrett Millikan United States 28 2.5k 2.3k 1.9k 1.9k 929 68 6.2k
David J. Chalmers United States 32 2.8k 1.1× 3.5k 1.5× 2.3k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 708 0.8× 81 7.6k
Paul M. Churchland United States 29 1.8k 0.7× 2.0k 0.9× 1.3k 0.7× 1.3k 0.7× 506 0.5× 89 5.1k
Fred Dretske United States 29 3.5k 1.4× 2.6k 1.1× 2.9k 1.5× 1.7k 0.9× 693 0.7× 99 6.9k
Gilbert Harman United States 36 2.8k 1.1× 2.5k 1.1× 3.1k 1.6× 1.5k 0.8× 905 1.0× 159 8.6k
Stephen P. Stich United States 27 1.5k 0.6× 1.5k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 762 0.4× 502 0.5× 66 4.2k
Robert Cummins United States 19 1.7k 0.7× 2.3k 1.0× 660 0.3× 991 0.5× 588 0.6× 65 5.6k
Tyler Burge United States 34 3.5k 1.4× 1.6k 0.7× 3.1k 1.6× 1.3k 0.7× 471 0.5× 79 5.6k
Donald Davidson United States 36 3.7k 1.5× 2.0k 0.9× 4.2k 2.2× 1.6k 0.8× 1.2k 1.3× 98 9.5k
John McDowell United States 30 3.3k 1.3× 2.1k 0.9× 3.9k 2.1× 1.3k 0.7× 603 0.6× 127 6.5k
Alvin I. Goldman United States 43 2.9k 1.2× 3.3k 1.4× 4.6k 2.4× 1.3k 0.7× 2.0k 2.2× 133 10.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2022). Rescuing Proper Functions. Australasian Philosophical Review. 6(4). 360–366. 1 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2021). Comment on the Relation between Representation and Information. Biosemiotics. 14(3). 581–582. 2 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2020). Neuroscience and teleosemantics. Synthese. 199(1-2). 2457–2465. 12 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2017). Beyond Concepts. Oxford University Press eBooks. 92 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2012). Troubles with Plantinga’s Reading of Millikan. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 87(2). 454–456. 1 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2009). It is likely misbelief never has a function. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 32(6). 529–530. 1 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett, et al.. (2008). Die Vielfalt der Bedeutung : Zeichen, Ziele und ihre Verwandtschaft. Suhrkamp eBooks.
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2005). The father, the son, and the daughter. Pragmatics & Cognition. 13(1). 59–71. 6 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2005). Language: A Biological Model. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 170 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2004). Varieties of Meaning. 123 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2001). A theory of representation to complement TEC. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 24(5). 894–895. 2 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (2000). Representations, Targets and Attitudes. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 60(1). 103–103. 3 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (1999). On sympathies with J. J. Gibson and on focusing reference. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 22(4). 732–733. 1 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (1999). Wings, Spoons, Pills, and Quills. The Journal of Philosophy. 96(4). 191–206. 35 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (1998). Language Conventions Made Simple. The Journal of Philosophy. 95(4). 161–161. 51 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (1994). On Unclear and Indistinct Ideas. Philosophical Perspectives. 8. 75–75. 11 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett & Andrew Woodfield. (1993). Knowing What I'm Thinking Of. Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume. 67(1). 91–124. 3 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett & Jerry A. Fodor. (1992). A Theory of Content and Other Essays.. The Philosophical Review. 101(4). 898–898. 62 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (1990). Compare and Contrast Dreske, Fodor, and Millikan on Teleosemantics. Philosophical Topics. 18(2). 151–161. 28 indexed citations
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Millikan, Ruth Garrett. (1984). Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories. The MIT Press eBooks. 1969 indexed citations breakdown →

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