David Gauthier

5.4k citations
138 papers · 3.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 26

Impact in

  • Philosophy top 0.1%
    • Philosophical Ethics and Theory
    • Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
    • Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics

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David Gauthier

109 papers receiving 2.4k citations

David Gauthier's Hit Papers

Morals by Agreement 1987 · 1.1k citations
1.1k0+13+26Years since publication2505007501000

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David Gauthier
Comparison fields: 5 of 148
  • Philosophy 1.1k
  • General Decision Sciences 136
  • Safety Research 387
  • Political Science and International Relations 1.1k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 507
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside David Gauthier, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Morals by Agreement
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19871137
2 1995203
3 1994114
4 1970108
5 197986
6 197970
7 199460
8 197554
9 197553
10 197752
11 199752
12 201350
13 196747
14 199047
15 199746
16 196544
17 198743
18 198742
19 199238
20 198436

About David Gauthier

David Gauthier is a scholar working on Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Economics and Econometrics and Cognitive Neuroscience, having authored 138 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Political Philosophy and Ethics (28 papers), Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (20 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (15 papers), Political Theology and Sovereignty (9 papers), War, Ethics, and Justification (7 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (6 papers), Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (5 papers) and Economic Theory and Institutions (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Philosophy (1.1k citations), General Decision Sciences (136 citations), Safety Research (387 citations), Political Science and International Relations (1.1k citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (507 citations). David Gauthier has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Martin D. Levine, Kenong Wu, W. J. Rees, Quentin Skinner, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Robert E. Goodin, Robert Sugden, P. Freedman, A.S. Malowany and Anthony Kenny. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, The Philosophical Review and Social Philosophy and Policy.

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