Steven French

7.2k total citations
126 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Steven French is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Steven French has authored 126 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 34 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Steven French's work include Philosophy and History of Science (76 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (34 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (20 papers). Steven French is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and History of Science (76 papers), Quantum Mechanics and Applications (34 papers) and Philosophy and Theoretical Science (20 papers). Steven French collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Brazil and United States. Steven French's co-authors include James Ladyman, Newton C. A. da Costa, Otávio Bueno, Décio Krause, Paul Horwich, Michael Redhead, Juha Saatsi, Harmke Kamminga, Kerry McKenzie and Dean Rickles and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, American Journal of Physics and The Journal of Philosophy.

In The Last Decade

Steven French

114 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Steven French United Kingdom	27	2.1k	889	677	392	366	126	2.8k
Michaël Friedman United States	30	1.9k 0.9×	387 0.4×	836 1.2×	426 1.1×	879 2.4×	133	3.5k
William Demopoulos Canada	13	1.8k 0.9×	256 0.3×	636 0.9×	151 0.4×	656 1.8×	40	2.7k
John Earman United States	34	1.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	694 1.0×	1.3k 3.4×	764 2.1×	126	4.6k
Marc Lange United States	22	1.3k 0.6×	199 0.2×	595 0.9×	160 0.4×	618 1.7×	111	1.7k
Robert W. Batterman United States	20	967 0.5×	474 0.5×	156 0.2×	263 0.7×	140 0.4×	39	1.7k
Stathis Psillos Greece	23	1.4k 0.7×	204 0.2×	428 0.6×	121 0.3×	551 1.5×	82	2.0k
Paul Teller United States	20	799 0.4×	495 0.6×	361 0.5×	131 0.3×	304 0.8×	62	1.5k
James Woodward United States	29	2.0k 1.0×	209 0.2×	669 1.0×	138 0.4×	804 2.2×	80	3.7k
Barry Loewer United States	22	1.2k 0.6×	510 0.6×	1.0k 1.5×	157 0.4×	821 2.2×	64	2.3k
J. J. C. Smart Australia	24	806 0.4×	211 0.2×	664 1.0×	287 0.7×	627 1.7×	116	2.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Steven French

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Fields of papers citing papers by Steven French

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Steven French

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

French, Steven & Juha Saatsi. (2018). Symmetries and Explanatory Dependencies in Physics. Oxford University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations

Bueno, Otávio & Steven French. (2018). Applying New Mathematics. Oxford University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations

French, Steven. (2016). Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts. 2 indexed citations

French, Steven & Juha Saatsi. (2014). The Bloomsbury companion to the philosophy of science. Bloomsbury eBooks. 10 indexed citations

French, Steven & Kerry McKenzie. (2012). Thinking Outside the Toolbox: Towards a More Productive Engagement Between Metaphysics and Philosophy of Physics. PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh). 8(1). 42–59. 32 indexed citations

Bueno, Otávio & Steven French. (2011). How Theories Represent. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 62(4). 857–894. 46 indexed citations

French, Steven. (2011). Shifting to structures in physics and biology: A prophylactic for promiscuous realism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 42(2). 164–173. 18 indexed citations

French, Steven. (2010). The interdependence of structure, objects and dependence. Synthese. 175(S1). 89–109. 42 indexed citations

French, Steven. (2009). Correspondence, Invariance and Heuristics: Essays in Honour of Heinz Post. Kluwer Academic eBooks. 10 indexed citations

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French, Steven. (2007). Metamathematics and Mechanics. Metascience. 16(3). 529–533. 1 indexed citations

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French, Steven. (2007). The Door to Sellars. Metascience. 16(3). 555–559. 1 indexed citations

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Costa, Newton C. A. da, Otávio Bueno, & Steven French. (2005). A coherence theory of truth. Manuscrito. 28(2). 263–290. 7 indexed citations

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French, Steven. (2003). A Model-Theoretic Account of Representation (Or, I Don't Know Much about Art…but I Know It Involves Isomorphism). Philosophy of Science. 70(5). 1472–1483. 75 indexed citations

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Bueno, Otávio, Steven French, & James Ladyman. (2002). On Representing the Relationship between the Mathematical and the Empirical. Philosophy of Science. 69(3). 497–518. 116 indexed citations

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French, Steven. (2001). Getting Out of a Hole: Identity Individuality and Structuralism in Space-time Physics.. Philosophica. 67(1). 1 indexed citations

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French, Steven. (2001). Symmetry, Structure and the Constitution of Objects. PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh). 11 indexed citations

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Bueno, Otávio & Steven French. (1999). Infestation or pest control: the introduction of group theory into quantum mechanics. Manuscrito. 22(2). 37–68. 8 indexed citations

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French, Steven. (1995). BAS VAN FRAASSEN, Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist Approach. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, cloth £ 55.00; paper £ 17.50. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. 46(3). 436–439.

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Costa, Newton C. A. da & Steven French. (1990). Belief, Contradiction and the Logic of Self-Deception. American Philosophical Quarterly. 27(3). 10 indexed citations

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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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