{"id":1865,"date":"2023-07-19T11:08:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/?p=1865"},"modified":"2023-07-19T11:08:55","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:08:55","slug":"three-egocentric-top-five-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/2023\/07\/19\/three-egocentric-top-five-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Three egocentric top-five lists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It is never clear to me which things I’ve written have had the most impact. Two easy answers: First, there is forall x<\/em>. It exists in myriad versions now, customized and translated by people around the world. But that’s a textbook, so it isn’t readily comparable to all the other things. Second, nothing I have written has had too much impact. Still, one can make distinctions even in the low end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here are some metrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Here are the top five in terms of downloads from Scholars Archive<\/a>, Albany’s institutional repository:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Art concept pluralism<\/a> (with Christy Mag Uidhir)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. State of the field: Why novel prediction matters<\/a> (with Heather Douglas)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Underdetermination and the claims of science<\/a> (my PhD thesis)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Reid’s defense of common sense<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Realist ennui and the base rate fallacy<\/a> (with Craig Callender)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    And here’s the top five in terms of downloads from PhilPeople<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    1. Scientific enquiry and natural kinds: From planets to mallards<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    2. Reality, sex, and cyberspace<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    3. On trusting Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
    4. Realist ennui and the base rate fallacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    5. What kind of is-ought gap is there and what kind ought there be?<\/a> (with Jon Mandle)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      And the top five in terms of citations, as reported by Google Scholar<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      1. Realist ennui and the base rate fallacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. Scientific enquiry and natural kinds: From planets to mallards<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. On trusting Wikipedia<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Distributed cognition and the task of science<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. Early response to false claims in Wikipedia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        The only item on all three lists is a paper about scientific realism, which explains why some people think of me as a guy who writes about realism despite the fact that the point of that paper is that we should stop writing about realism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        I am unsure if there are any other systematic conclusions to be drawn. Partly this is because top five<\/em> is an arbitrary cutoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        It is never clear to me which things I’ve written have had the most impact. Two easy answers: First, there is forall x. It exists in myriad versions now, customized and translated by people around the world. But that’s a textbook, so it isn’t readily comparable to all the other things. Second, nothing I have … Continue reading “Three egocentric top-five lists”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-1865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump","tag-my-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PjAo-u5","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1865\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fecundity.com\/nfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}