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Ruth Garrett Millikan 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 Ruth Garrett Millikan sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 118 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ruth Garrett Millikan 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 Ruth Garrett Millikan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 32 D-Index — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2002 - Jean Nicod Prize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Overview

Ruth Garrett Millikan is affiliated with the University of Connecticut in the United States. Their research primarily addresses topics intersecting psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science, with a particular focus on language, cognition, and theoretical science.

The main fields of study for Millikan include:

  • Psychology

Within these fields, their subfields of focus encompass:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Social Psychology

Millikan's work covers various topics, notably:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms
  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Fractal and DNA sequence analysis
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function

The scientist has published multiple papers in frequent venues such as:

  • Mind & Language
  • Biosemiotics
  • Synthese
  • Australasian Philosophical Review
  • Erkenntnis

Recent publication titles include:

  • Neuroscience and teleosemantics, 2020, Synthese
  • Comment on the Relation between Representation and Information, 2021, Biosemiotics
  • Teleosemantics and the frogs, 2023, Mind & Language
  • Rescuing Proper Functions, 2022, Australasian Philosophical Review
  • Comment on Artiga's "Teleosemantics and Pushmi-Pullyu Representations", 2021, Erkenntnis

Throughout their career, Millikan has received recognition including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014
  • Jean Nicod Prize, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 2002

Best Publications

  • Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • In Defense of Proper Functions

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice.

    Julia Tanney;Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • On Clear and Confused Ideas

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Varieties of Meaning: The 2002 Jean Nicod Lectures

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Pushmi-pullyu representations

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism

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  • Language, thought and other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism

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  • Historical Kinds and the “Special Sciences”

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Thoughts without laws: Cognitive science with content

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • White Queen psychology and other essays for Alice

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Language: A Biological Model

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Varieties of Meaning

    Ruth Millikan

  • A common structure for concepts of individuals, stuffs, and real kinds: more Mama, more milk, and more mouse.

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Language conventions made simple

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Truth, rules, hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein paradox

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information

    Ruth Millikan

  • The myth of the essential indexical

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Naturalist Reflections on Knowledge

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Perceptual content and Fregean myth

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • Wings, Spoons, Pills, and Quills: A Pluralist Theory of Function

    Ruth Garrett Millikan

  • White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice

    John F. Post;Ruth Garrett Millikan

Frequent Co-Authors

Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam Harvard University
Richard Rorty
Richard Rorty Stanford University

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