Peter Railton
Impact in
- Philosophy top 0.05%
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- History and Philosophy of Science top 0.2%
- Philosophy and History of Science
Papers in
- Philosophy 32
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics 20
- Philosophical Ethics and Theory 13
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- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment 16
- Free Will and Agency 4
- Co-authors
- Stephen Darwall (3 shared papers)Allan Gibbard (3 shared papers)Roy F. Baumeister (2 shared papers)Chandra Sripada (2 shared papers)Martin E. P. Seligman (2 shared papers)Judith Jarvis Thomson (1 shared paper)Gilbert Harman (1 shared paper)Richard W. Miller (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (4 papers)Ethics (4 papers)Philosophical Issues (3 papers)Ratio (2 papers)Philosophical Studies (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesFranceUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Peter Railton
74 papers receiving 2.8k citations
Peter Railton's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 126
- Philosophy 2.0k
- History and Philosophy of Science 522
- Cognitive Neuroscience 1.4k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 744
- General Decision Sciences 84
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Co-authors
The 17 scholars most cited alongside Peter Railton, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 89 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past Hit paper breakdown → | 2013 | 481 |
| 2 | Moral Realism Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 453 |
| 3 | Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality (1984) Hit paper breakdown → | 2003 | 445 |
| 4 | 1986 | 306 | |
| 5 | 1992 | 232 | |
| 6 | 1981 | 231 | |
| 7 | 1978 | 197 | |
| 8 | 1989 | 123 | |
| 9 | 2014 | 113 | |
| 10 | Moral discourse and practice | 1997 | 111 |
| 11 | 2003 | 102 | |
| 12 | Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches | 1997 | 82 |
| 13 | 2003 | 66 | |
| 14 | 1993 | 63 | |
| 15 | 2016 | 57 | |
| 16 | 1998 | 54 | |
| 17 | 2003 | 51 | |
| 18 | 1997 | 50 | |
| 19 | 2009 | 50 | |
| 20 | 1992 | 45 |
About Peter Railton
Peter Railton is a scholar working on Philosophy, Cognitive Neuroscience, Political Science and International Relations, History and Philosophy of Science and Social Psychology, having authored 89 papers that have together received 3.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (20 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers), Philosophical Ethics and Theory (13 papers), Political Philosophy and Ethics (13 papers), Philosophy and History of Science (8 papers), Ethics in medical practice (7 papers), Emotions and Moral Behavior (6 papers) and Free Will and Agency (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Philosophy (2.0k citations), History and Philosophy of Science (522 citations), Cognitive Neuroscience (1.4k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (744 citations) and General Decision Sciences (84 citations). Peter Railton has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Stephen Darwall, Allan Gibbard, Roy F. Baumeister, Chandra Sripada, Martin E. P. Seligman, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Gilbert Harman, Richard W. Miller, Mary Devereaux and Jerrold Levinson. Their work appears in journals such as Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Ethics, Philosophical Issues, Ratio and Philosophical Studies.
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