William Child

881 total citations
21 papers, 259 citations indexed

About

William Child is a scholar working on Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William Child has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 259 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Philosophy, 12 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 3 papers in History and Philosophy of Science. Recurrent topics in William Child's work include Philosophy and Theoretical Science (11 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (9 papers) and Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (8 papers). William Child is often cited by papers focused on Philosophy and Theoretical Science (11 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (9 papers) and Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications (8 papers). William Child collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom. William Child's co-authors include Alfred R. Mele, Paul Johnston, David Pears and David Charles and has published in prestigious journals such as The Philosophical Review, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research and The Philosophical Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

William Child

21 papers receiving 212 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Child United Kingdom 7 173 165 70 64 15 21 259
Joshua Hoffman United States 8 139 0.8× 156 0.9× 77 1.1× 39 0.6× 10 0.7× 25 252
Albert Casullo United States 9 173 1.0× 168 1.0× 67 1.0× 53 0.8× 10 0.7× 44 233
David Robb United Kingdom 7 84 0.5× 133 0.8× 51 0.7× 119 1.9× 9 0.6× 33 249
Brie Gertler United States 10 168 1.0× 161 1.0× 52 0.7× 96 1.5× 14 0.9× 21 234
Sara Bernstein United States 10 141 0.8× 166 1.0× 85 1.2× 94 1.5× 13 0.9× 24 265
Matjaž Potrč Slovenia 8 177 1.0× 172 1.0× 94 1.3× 39 0.6× 13 0.9× 22 249
Richard Gaskin United Kingdom 10 151 0.9× 206 1.2× 73 1.0× 35 0.5× 14 0.9× 47 311
Sarah Sawyer United Kingdom 9 147 0.8× 163 1.0× 45 0.6× 65 1.0× 10 0.7× 24 233
Jennifer McKitrick United States 6 136 0.8× 138 0.8× 85 1.2× 58 0.9× 14 0.9× 15 261
Jamin Asay Hong Kong 8 230 1.3× 247 1.5× 155 2.2× 46 0.7× 10 0.7× 33 311

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Child

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Child

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Child, William. (2025). Charity Versus Knowledge Maximization. Topoi. 44(5). 1227–1239. 1 indexed citations
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Child, William. (2009). Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, by Richard Moran.. Mind. 118(471). 850–855. 2 indexed citations
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Child, William. (2007). DREAMING, CALCULATING, THINKING: WITTGENSTEIN AND ANTI-REALISM ABOUT THE PAST. The Philosophical Quarterly. 57(227). 252–272. 1 indexed citations
4.
Child, William. (2007). Davidson on First Person Authority and Knowledge of Meaning. Noûs. 41(2). 157–177. 3 indexed citations
5.
Child, William. (2006). Memory, Expression, and Past‐Tense Self‐Knowledge. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 73(1). 54–76. 3 indexed citations
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Child, William. (2006). Interpreting People and Interpreting Texts. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 14(3). 423–441. 2 indexed citations
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Pears, David, David Charles, & William Child. (2001). Wittgensteinian Themes: Essays in Honour of David Pears. Oxford University Press eBooks. 9 indexed citations
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Child, William. (2001). Triangulation: Davidson, Realism and Natural Kinds. dialectica. 55(1). 29–50. 5 indexed citations
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Child, William, et al.. (2000). Problems of Vision: Rethinking the Causal Theory of Perception. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 60(3). 729–729. 3 indexed citations
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Child, William, et al.. (2000). Wittgenstein and Common-Sense Realism. 2(2). 179–202. 1 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1997). Discussions: Crane on Mental Causation. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 97(1). 97–102. 4 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1996). Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 74 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1996). Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind. Mind & Language. 11(3). 306–312. 6 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1996). Solipsism and First Person/Third Person Asymmetries. European Journal of Philosophy. 4(2). 137–154. 5 indexed citations
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Mele, Alfred R. & William Child. (1995). Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind.. The Philosophical Review. 104(4). 637–637. 70 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1994). Vision and Causation: Reply to Hyman. The Philosophical Quarterly. 44(176). 361–361. 3 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1994). IV—On the Dualism of Scheme and Content. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 94(1). 53–72. 6 indexed citations
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Child, William & Paul Johnston. (1994). Wittgenstein: Rethinking the Inner.. The Philosophical Quarterly. 44(175). 264–264. 8 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1993). Anomalism, Uncodifiability, and Psychophysical Relations. The Philosophical Review. 102(2). 215–215. 16 indexed citations
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Child, William. (1992). Vision and Experience: The Causal theory and the Disjunctive Conception. The Philosophical Quarterly. 42(168). 297–297. 21 indexed citations

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