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World Ranking
6661
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3230

Derk Pereboom publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Derk Pereboom sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 154 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Derk Pereboom D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Derk Pereboom sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Derk Pereboom is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and engages in research primarily within the fields of Arts and Humanities and Neuroscience. Their subfields of study focus notably on Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, History and Philosophy of Science, and General Health Professions.

The main topics addressed in Pereboom's work include Free Will and Agency, War, Ethics, and Justification, Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations, Philosophy and Theoretical Science, Ethics in medical practice, and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment.

Recent scholarly contributions by Pereboom include the following papers:

  • Undivided Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility, 2021, The Monist
  • Non-free general deterrence, 2021, Journal of Legal Philosophy
  • Review of Why Free Will is Real, Christian List, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019, 2022, Criminal Law and Philosophy
  • Causalism: Unifying Action and Free Action, 2025, Ethics

Additionally, there is a related paper in the dataset authored by Torin Alter, titled Russellian Monism and Structuralism About Physics, 2021, Erkenntnis.

Pereboom has collaborated frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Gregg D. Caruso
  • Michael McKenna
  • Torin Alter

Their publications appear regularly in several academic venues, including:

  • The Monist
  • Erkenntnis
  • Journal of Legal Philosophy
  • Criminal Law and Philosophy
  • Ethics

In terms of book publications, Pereboom has contributed works published by Cambridge University Press. These include:

  • Moral Responsibility Reconsidered, 2022
  • Free Will, 2022

Best Publications

  • Living without free will

    Derk Pereboom

  • Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life

    Derk Pereboom

  • Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism

    Derk Pereboom

  • Determinism al dente

    Derk Pereboom

  • ROBUST NONREDUCTIVE MATERIALISM

    Derk Pereboom

  • Four Views on Free Will

    John Martin Fischer;Robert Kane;Derk Pereboom;Manuel Vargas

  • The Metaphysics of Irreducibility

    Derek Pereboom;Hilary Kornblith

  • Free Will: A Contemporary Introduction

    Michael McKenna;Derk Pereboom

  • Existentialism: Basic Writings

    Charles B. Guignon;Derk Pereboom

  • Defending hard incompatibilism

    Derk Pereboom

  • Kant on Transcendental Freedom1

    Derk Pereboom

  • Alternative Possibilities and Causal Histories

    Derk Pereboom

  • A Hard‐line Reply to the Multiple‐Case Manipulation Argument

    Derk Pereboom

  • Living Without Free Will: The Case for Hard Incompatibilism

    Derk Pereboom

  • Free Will, Love, And Anger

    Derk Pereboom

  • Free Will Skepticism, Blame, and Obligation

    Derk Pereboom;Justin Coates

  • Is Our Conception of Agent-Causation Coherent?

    Derk Pereboom

  • Stoic Psychotherapy in Descartes and Spinoza

    Derk Pereboom

  • Moral Responsibility Reconsidered

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  • Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility

    Susan Blackmore;Thomas W. Clark;Mark Hallett;John-Dylan Haynes

  • A Compatibilist Account of the Epistemic Conditions on Rational Deliberation

    Derk Pereboom

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaun Nichols
Shaun Nichols Cornell University
Marcel Brass
Marcel Brass Ghent University
John-Dylan Haynes
John-Dylan Haynes Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Neil Levy
Neil Levy Macquarie University

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