Thomas Scanlon

4.3k citations
17 papers · 2.3k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 11

Impact in

  • Philosophy top 0.1%
    • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
    • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
    • War, Ethics, and Justification
    • Free Will and Agency
    • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Papers in

Journals
Philosophy &amp Public Affairs (3 papers)Michigan Law Review (1 paper)Filozofija i drustvo (1 paper)Harvard University Press eBooks (1 paper)DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library) (1 paper)
Partner nations
United States

In The Last Decade

Thomas Scanlon

15 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

What We Owe to Each Other 2000 · 1.7k citations
1.7k200020262008201750010001.5k

Peers

Thomas Scanlon
Comparison fields: 5 of 108
  • Philosophy 1.3k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 1.1k
  • Political Science and International Relations 663
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 234
  • General Decision Sciences 32
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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
#Work
1 20190
2 20166
3
The Heraia at Olympia Revisited
20081
4 2008213
5 200620
6 200360
7
What We Owe to Each Other
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20001714
8
El valor, el deseo y la calidad de vida
19982
9
The Status of Well-Being
19963
10
Promises and practices
199086
11
The Significance of Choice
198665
12
Marx, justice, and history
198024
13 19790
14
Equality and preferential treatment
197748
15
Nozick on rights, liberty, and property
197627
16
Thomson on privacy
197536
17
War and moral responsibility
197414

About Thomas Scanlon

Thomas Scanlon is a scholar working on Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy, Anthropology, Law and Archeology, having authored 17 papers that have together received 2.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 papers), Classical Antiquity Studies (1 paper), Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (1 paper), Torture, Ethics, and Law (1 paper), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (1 paper), Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (1 paper), International Law and Human Rights (1 paper) and Judicial and Constitutional Studies (1 paper). The work is most often cited by research in Philosophy (1.3k citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (1.1k citations), Political Science and International Relations (663 citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (234 citations) and General Decision Sciences (32 citations). Thomas Scanlon has collaborated with scholars based in United States. Frequent co-authors include Thomas Nagel, Marshall M. Cohen, R. Dworkin, Richard B. Brandt and Kenneth W. Simons. Their work appears in journals such as Philosophy & Public Affairs, Michigan Law Review, Filozofija i drustvo, Harvard University Press eBooks and DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library).

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