Theodore Sider

8.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Theodore Sider is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Theodore Sider has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 36 papers in Philosophy and 23 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in Theodore Sider's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science (47 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (27 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (22 papers). Theodore Sider is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science (47 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (27 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (22 papers). Theodore Sider collaborates with scholars based in United States and Netherlands. Theodore Sider's co-authors include John Hawthorne, Dean W. Zimmerman, David Braun and Lynne Rudder Baker and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Review, The Journal of Philosophy and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

In The Last Decade

Theodore Sider

73 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Four-Dimensionalism

2001 716 citations Theodore Sider profile →
Writing the Book of the World

2011 700 citations Theodore Sider Oxford University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Theodore Sider United States	27	3.2k	2.4k	1.9k	508	449	76	4.0k
Jonathan Schaffer United States	34	2.3k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	618 1.2×	466 1.0×	70	3.4k
D. M. Armstrong Australia	27	2.4k 0.8×	2.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	772 1.5×	413 0.9×	104	4.1k
Hartry Field United States	26	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.6×	249 0.5×	659 1.5×	64	2.8k
Jaegwon Kim United States	36	3.0k 1.0×	2.4k 1.0×	2.8k 1.5×	1.6k 3.1×	423 0.9×	96	6.2k
Terence Horgan United States	27	1.5k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	852 0.5×	962 1.9×	247 0.6×	89	2.8k
Christopher Peacocke United States	28	2.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.6×	1.4k 2.7×	424 0.9×	106	4.6k
E. J. Lowe United Kingdom	24	1.3k 0.4×	1.2k 0.5×	848 0.5×	367 0.7×	263 0.6×	152	2.2k
Frank Jackson Australia	23	1.7k 0.5×	1.5k 0.6×	891 0.5×	930 1.8×	225 0.5×	76	2.9k
Peter van Inwagen United States	30	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 0.9×	685 0.4×	1.1k 2.2×	204 0.5×	119	3.2k
Barry Loewer United States	22	1.0k 0.3×	821 0.3×	1.2k 0.6×	359 0.7×	267 0.6×	64	2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Theodore Sider

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Fields of papers citing papers by Theodore Sider

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Theodore Sider

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Theodore Sider. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Theodore Sider based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Theodore Sider. Theodore Sider is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

1.

Sider, Theodore. (2023). The New Collapse Argument against Quantifier Variance. The Monist. 106(3). 342–361.

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Sider, Theodore. (2022). Dasgupta's Detonation. Philosophical Perspectives. 36(1). 292–304. 2 indexed citations

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Sider, Theodore. (2020). The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science. Oxford University Press eBooks. 55 indexed citations

4.

Sider, Theodore. (2018). Asymmetric Personal Identity. Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 4(2). 127–146. 8 indexed citations

5.

Sider, Theodore. (2017). Ross Cameron’s The Moving Spotlight. Analysis. 77(4). 788–799. 5 indexed citations

6.

Sider, Theodore. (2013). Symposium on Writing the Book of the World. Analysis. 73(4). 751–770. 11 indexed citations

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Sider, Theodore, John Hawthorne, & Dean W. Zimmerman. (2008). Contemporary debates in metaphysics. 324 indexed citations

8.

Sider, Theodore & David Braun. (2006). Kripke’s Revenge. Philosophical Studies. 128(3). 669–682. 15 indexed citations

9.

Sider, Theodore. (2005). Travelling in A- and B- Time. The Monist. 88(3). 329–335. 11 indexed citations

10.

Sider, Theodore. (2005). Reductive Theories of Modality. Oxford University Press eBooks. 42 indexed citations

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Sider, Theodore. (2004). Review: Objects and Persons. Mind. 113(449). 195–198. 1 indexed citations

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Sider, Theodore, et al.. (2002). Hell and Vagueness. Faith and Philosophy. 19(1). 58–68. 14 indexed citations

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Sider, Theodore. (2002). Persons and Bodies. The Journal of Philosophy. 99(1). 45–48. 6 indexed citations

14.

Sider, Theodore. (2002). Review of Lynne Rudder Baker, Persons and Bodies. The Journal of Philosophy. 99(1). 5 indexed citations

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Sider, Theodore. (2002). Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 432 indexed citations

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Hawthorne, John & Theodore Sider. (2002). Locations. Philosophical Topics. 30(1). 53–76. 26 indexed citations

17.

Sider, Theodore. (2001). Criteria of Personal Identity and the Limits of Conceptual Analysis. Noûs. 35(s15). 189–209. 64 indexed citations

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Sider, Theodore. (1999). Global Supervenience and Identity across Times and Worlds. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 59(4). 913–913. 46 indexed citations

19.

Sider, Theodore. (1995). Sorensen on Unknowable Obligations. Utilitas. 7(2). 273–279. 6 indexed citations

20.

Sider, Theodore. (1993). Naturalness, intrinsicality, and duplication.. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 11 indexed citations

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