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4611
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John Cottingham 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 John Cottingham sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 387 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John Cottingham 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 John Cottingham sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John Cottingham is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Arts and Humanities, with a focus on Philosophy. Within this broad domain, their work spans several subfields including Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology and Political Science, Education, and Health.

The scientist's research topics cover various aspects of theology, philosophy, and history. Key thematic areas include Theology and Philosophy of Evil, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Karl Barth and Christian Theology, Philosophical Ethics and Theory, Historical Philosophy and Science, History of Science and Medicine, and Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology.

John Cottingham's recent publications illustrate the range and focus of their research interests. These include:

  • "Spiritual Experience: Its Scope, Its Phenomenology, and Its Source" (2023, New Blackfriars)
  • "What Is Existence?" (2024, New Blackfriars)
  • "Which naturalism?" (2022, New Blackfriars)
  • "Swinburne's Hyper-Cartesian Dualism" (2021, Roczniki Filozoficzne)
  • "The Immaterial Soul and the Embodied Human Being: Descartes on Mind and Body" (2023, Think)

These papers reflect a consistent engagement with metaphysical questions, the philosophy of mind, and intersections between historical and contemporary philosophy.

John Cottingham's work has appeared predominantly in the journal New Blackfriars, with five publications there. Other venues where their research has been published include Roczniki Filozoficzne, Theology, Society, and Think. This distribution underlines a concentration on interdisciplinary philosophical and theological discourse.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers such as Marcin Iwanicki and Joanna Klara Teske, contributing to the scholarly community through joint efforts.

Best Publications

  • The Philosophical Writings of Descartes

    René Descartes;John Cottingham;Robert Stoothoff;Dugald Murdoch

  • The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Contents

    René Descartes;John Cottingham;Robert Stoothoff;Dugald Murdoch

  • Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: Meditations on First Philosophy

    René Descartes;John Cottingham;Bernard Williams

  • The Cambridge Companion to Descartes

    John Cottingham

  • Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian and Psychoanalytic Ethics

    John Cottingham

  • Varieties of Retribution

    John Cottingham

  • ‘A Brute to the Brutes?’: Descartes' Treatment of Animals

    John Cottingham

  • On the Meaning of Life

    John Graham Cottingham

  • The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value

    John Cottingham

  • Partiality, Favouritism and Morality

    John Cottingham

  • The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 3, The Correspondence

    John Cottingham;Dugald Murdoch;Robert Stoothoff;Anthony Kenny

  • The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Vol. Iii: The Correspondence

    R. Descartes;John Cottingham;Robert Stoothoff;Dugald Murdoch

  • The Philosophical Writings

    John Cottingham;Robert Stoothoff;Dugald Murdoch

  • Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings: Optics

    René Descartes;John Cottingham;Robert Stoothoff;Dugald Murdoch

  • Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

    René Descartes;John Cottingham;Bernard Williams

  • Descartes' physiology and its relation to his psychology

    Gary Hatfield;John Cottingham

  • Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings: Principles of Philosophy

    René Descartes;John Cottingham;Robert Stoothoff;Dugald Murdoch

  • Ethics and impartiality

    John Cottingham

  • Philosophy of Religion: Towards a More Humane Approach

    John Cottingham

  • Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies

    John Cottingham

  • The Psychoanalytic Mind: from Freud to Philosophy.

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  • Descartes’ Metaphysical Physics

    John Cottingham

Frequent Co-Authors

René Descartes
René Descartes University of Reading
Peter M. S. Hacker
Peter M. S. Hacker University of Oxford
Anthony Kenny
Anthony Kenny University of Oxford
Gary Hatfield
Gary Hatfield University of Pennsylvania
Peter C. Adamson
Peter C. Adamson Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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