Stephen Stich

8.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Stephen Stich is a scholar working on Philosophy, Cognitive Neuroscience and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephen Stich has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Philosophy, 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 17 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Stephen Stich's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (23 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (23 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers). Stephen Stich is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (23 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (23 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (11 papers). Stephen Stich collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Stephen Stich's co-authors include Shaun Nichols, Jonathan M. Weinberg, Wesley Buckwalter, Stephen Laurence, Peter Carruthers, Kevin Tobia, Édouard Machery, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Ian Ravenscroft and Kevin J. Haley and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Cognition and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Stephen Stich

72 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 100 200 300
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. Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions
    2001 374 citations Jonathan M. Weinberg, Shaun Nichols et al. Philosophical Topics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Stephen Stich United States 25 1.2k 1.1k 663 549 478 75 2.4k
Eric Schwitzgebel United States 26 1.5k 1.2× 1.0k 0.9× 660 1.0× 508 0.9× 421 0.9× 86 2.6k
John Turri Canada 25 991 0.8× 1.6k 1.4× 632 1.0× 250 0.5× 522 1.1× 154 1.9k
Tamar Szabó Gendler United States 17 791 0.6× 727 0.6× 557 0.8× 425 0.8× 462 1.0× 29 1.9k
Peter Railton United States 20 818 0.7× 1.0k 0.9× 422 0.6× 343 0.6× 356 0.7× 48 2.1k
Lynne Rudder Baker United States 22 844 0.7× 1.2k 1.1× 1.1k 1.7× 281 0.5× 252 0.5× 78 2.5k
Alfred R. Mele United States 34 3.6k 2.9× 2.7k 2.4× 991 1.5× 545 1.0× 572 1.2× 201 4.9k
Linda Zagzebski United States 21 1.0k 0.8× 2.1k 1.8× 637 1.0× 351 0.6× 700 1.5× 79 2.9k
Hilary� Kornblith United States 20 656 0.5× 1.6k 1.4× 904 1.4× 111 0.2× 377 0.8× 61 2.2k
Owen Flanagan United States 23 998 0.8× 538 0.5× 508 0.8× 587 1.1× 348 0.7× 78 2.1k
Gregory Currie United Kingdom 26 862 0.7× 737 0.7× 778 1.2× 429 0.8× 315 0.7× 131 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Stephen Stich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephen Stich

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Stich, Stephen, et al.. (2025). Analytic atheism and analytic apostasy across cultures. Religious Studies. 61(S1). S65–S89. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Kristopher M., et al.. (2021). Evaluating Information and Misinformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence for Epistemic Vigilance. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 2 indexed citations
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Doris, John M., et al.. (2020). Empirical Approaches to Altruism.
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Rosé, David, et al.. (2017). Behavioral Circumscription and the Folk Psychology of Belief. Thought A Journal of Philosophy. 6(3). 193–203. 6 indexed citations
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Doris, John M., et al.. (2017). Can Psychologists Tell Us Anything About Morality?. The Philosophers Magazine. 24–29. 3 indexed citations
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Stich, Stephen & Kevin Tobia. (2015). Experimental Philosophy's Challenge to the 'Great Tradition'. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Stich, Stephen, et al.. (2015). The pretense debate. Cognition. 143. 1–12. 12 indexed citations
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Fessler, Daniel M. T., H. Clark Barrett, Martin Kanovský, et al.. (2015). Moral parochialism and contextual contingency across seven societies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 282(1813). 20150907–20150907. 34 indexed citations
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Stich, Stephen. (2015). Why there might not be an evolutionary explanation for psychological altruism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 56. 3–6. 7 indexed citations
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Tobia, Kevin, Gretchen B. Chapman, & Stephen Stich. (2013). Cleanliness is Next to Morality, Even for Philosophers. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 20(2). 204–204. 16 indexed citations
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Barrett, H. Clark, Stephen Stich, & Stephen Laurence. (2012). Should the Study of Homo sapiens be Part of Cognitive Science?. Topics in Cognitive Science. 4(3). 379–386. 5 indexed citations
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Buckwalter, Wesley & Stephen Stich. (2010). Gender and Philosophical Intuition. SSRN Electronic Journal. 14 indexed citations
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Doris, John M., et al.. (2006). Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches. 46 indexed citations
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Nichols, Shaun, Stephen Stich, & Jonathan M. Weinberg. (2003). Metaskepticism: Meditations in ethnoepistemology. 73 indexed citations
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Stich, Stephen. (2001). Plato's method meets cognitive science. 21(2). 9 indexed citations
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Weinberg, Jonathan M., Shaun Nichols, & Stephen Stich. (2001). Normativity and Epistemic Intuitions. Philosophical Topics. 29(1). 429–460. 374 indexed citations breakdown →
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Nichols, Shaun & Stephen Stich. (2001). Leggere la propria mente. 13(1). 143–170. 1 indexed citations
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Nichols, Shaun & Stephen Stich. (1998). Rethinking Co‐Cognition: A Reply to Heal. Mind & Language. 13(4). 499–512. 7 indexed citations
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Stich, Stephen & Ian Ravenscroft. (1994). What is folk psychology?. Cognition. 50(1-3). 447–468. 59 indexed citations
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Ramsey, William, et al.. (1990). Connectionism, Eliminativism and The Future of Folk Psychology. Philosophical Perspectives. 4. 499–499. 42 indexed citations

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