Author

James Woodward

Observed names: J. WOODWARD, J. Woodward, JAMES WOODWARD, James F. WOODWARD, James F. Woodward, Woodward, James F.

Observed institutions: California Institute of Technology, The University of Texas System, University of Pittsburgh, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, University of Memphis

ORCID: 0000-0003-1826-0735

Observed ORCID: 0000-0003-1826-0735

OpenAlex ID: A5085640193

Making Things Happen

2004 · James Woodward · 1,300

Saving the Phenomena

1988 · James Bogen, James Woodward · The Philosophical Review · 969

Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation

2010 · James Woodward · Biology & Philosophy · 474

Explanation and Invariance in the Special Sciences

2000 · J. Woodward · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 382

Independence, Invariance and the Causal Markov Condition

1999 · Daniel M. Hausman, James Woodward · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 375

Folk Psychology is Here to Stay

1985 · Terence Horgan, James Woodward · The Philosophical Review · 314

Explanatory Generalizations, Part I: A Counterfactual Account

2003 · James Woodward, Christopher Hitchcock · Noûs · 313

The Non-Identity Problem

1986 · James Woodward · Ethics · 262

Explanatory Generalizations, Part II: Plumbing Explanatory Depth

2003 · Christopher Hitchcock, James Woodward · Noûs · 256

Interventionism and Causal Exclusion

2014 · James Woodward · Philosophy and Phenomenological Research · 255

Sensitive and Insensitive Causation

2006 · J. Woodward · The Philosophical Review · 214

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A theory of singular causal explanation

1984 · James Woodward · Erkenntnis · 168

Mental Causation and Neural Mechanisms*

2008 · James Woodward · Oxford University Press eBooks · 166

Just do it? Investigating the gap between prediction and action in toddlers’ causal inferences

2010 · Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Darlene Ferranti, et al. · Cognition · 140

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Moral intuition: Its neural substrates and normative significance

2007 · James Woodward, John Allman · Journal of Physiology-Paris · 132

Emotional and Utilitarian Appraisals of Moral Dilemmas Are Encoded in Separate Areas and Integrated in Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex

2015 · C. A. Hutcherson, L. Montaser-Kouhsari, et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 122

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The problem of variable choice

2015 · James Woodward · Synthese · 119

Scientific Explanation

1979 · JAMES WOODWARD · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 115

II—James Woodward: Mechanistic Explanation: Its Scope and Limits

2013 · James Woodward · Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume · 114

Modularity and the Causal Markov Condition: A Restatement

2004 · Daniel M. Hausman, James Woodward · The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science · 108

There is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law

2002 · James Woodward · Springer eBooks · 87

A Functional Account of Causation; or, A Defense of the Legitimacy of Causal Thinking by Reference to the Only Standard That Matters—Usefulness (as Opposed to Metaphysics or Agreement with Intuitive Judgment)

2014 · James Woodward · Philosophy of Science · 77

There is No Such Thing as a Ceteris Paribus Law

2002 · James Woodward · Erkenntnis · 77

Methodology, ontology, and interventionism

2014 · James Woodward · Synthese · 75

Agency and Interventionist Theories

2010 · James F. Woodward · Oxford University Press eBooks · 64

Works count: 134

Citation count: 8,049

H-index: 39

I10-index: 69