David S. Oderberg | Academic Influence

David S. Oderberg's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

David S. Oderberg

Philosophy

#1004

World Rank

#1913

Historical Rank

Philosophy of Religion

#29

World Rank

#30

Historical Rank

Metaphysics

#74

World Rank

#109

Historical Rank

Ethics

#174

World Rank

#209

Historical Rank

philosophy Degrees

Download Badge

Philosophy

David S. Oderberg's Degrees

Bachelors Philosophy University of Melbourne
Bachelors Philosophy University of Oxford

Similar Degrees You Can Earn

Why Is David S. Oderberg Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

According to Wikipedia, Professor David Simon Oderberg is an Australian philosopher of metaphysics and ethics based in Britain since 1987. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Reading. He describes himself as a non-consequentialist or a traditionalist in his works. Broadly speaking, Oderberg places himself in opposition to Peter Singer and other utilitarian or consequentialist thinkers. He has published over thirty academic papers and has authored six books: The Metaphysics of Good and Evil, Opting Out: Conscience and Cooperation in a Pluralistic Society, Real Essentialism, Applied Ethics, Moral Theory, and The Metaphysics of Identity over Time. Professor Oderberg is an alumnus of the Universities of Melbourne, where he completed his first degrees, and Oxford where he gained his D.Phil.

(See a Problem?)

David S. Oderberg's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (1991) (218)
Identity and Discrimination (1992) (79)
Applied Ethics: A Non-Consequentialist Approach (2000) (59)
Coincidence under a Sortal (1996) (58)
Essence and Properties (2011) (53)
Moral Theory: A Non-Consequentialist Approach (2000) (48)
Finality revived: powers and intentionality (2017) (37)
Divine premotion (2016) (35)
Being and goodness (2014) (34)
Modal Properties, Moral Status, and Identity (1997) (34)
HYLEMORPHIC DUALISM (2005) (32)
The Metaphysics of Identity over Time. (1996) (26)
The Metaphysical Status of the Embryo: Some Arguments Revisited (2008) (26)
The world is not an asymmetric graph (2011) (15)
Artificial Reproduction, the `Welfare Principle`, and the Common Good (2005) (14)
Survivalism, Corruptionism, and Mereology (2012) (14)
Is form structure (2014) (14)
Temporal Parts and the Possibility of Change (2004) (14)
Human Lives: Critical Essays on Consequentialist Bioethics (1997) (13)
Further clarity on cooperation and morality (2016) (13)
Traversal of the Infinite, the “Big Bang,” and the Kalam Cosmological Argument (2002) (12)
Human Values: New Essays on Ethics and Natural Law (2004) (12)
The non-identity of the categorical and the dispositional (2009) (11)
Form and matter : themes in contemporary metaphysics (1998) (11)
Death, unity, and the brain (2019) (11)
On the Cardinality of the Cardinal Virtues (1999) (10)
The metaphysical foundations of natural law (2010) (9)
Opting Out: Conscience and Cooperation in a Pluralistic Society (2018) (9)
Mind‐Body Identity Theories (1991) (8)
The old new logic : essays on the philosophy of Fred Sommers (2005) (8)
Could There Be a Superhuman Species (2014) (8)
Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics: No potency without actuality: the case of graph theory (2011) (7)
The Ethics of Co-operation in Wrongdoing (2004) (7)
Teleology: inorganic and organic (2008) (7)
The Metaphysics of Good and Evil (2019) (7)
The Structure and Content of the Good (2004) (6)
Concepts, dualism, and the human intellect (2008) (5)
The great unifier: form and the unity of the organism (2017) (5)
Graph structuralism and its discontents: rejoinder to Shackel (2012) (5)
The Morality of Reputation and the Judgment of Others (2013) (4)
Predicate logic and bare particulars (2005) (4)
Synthetic Life and the Bruteness of Immanent Causation (2013) (4)
Hume, the Occult, and the Substance of the School (2012) (4)
'Whatever is changing is being changed by something else': a reappraisal of premise one of the first way (2010) (4)
The illusion of animal rights. (2000) (4)
Human embryonic stem cell research: what's wrong with it? (2005) (3)
Voluntary Euthanasia and Justice (1997) (3)
Towards a Natural Law Critique of Genetic Engineering (2005) (3)
Should There Be Freedom of Dissociation? (2017) (3)
Essence and identity (2007) (3)
The beginning of existence (2003) (3)
How special is medical conscience? (2019) (3)
Self-Love, Love of Neighbour, and Impartiality (2008) (3)
ON AN ALLEGED FALLACY IN ARISTOTLE (1998) (3)
The metaphysics of privation (2014) (2)
Johnston on Human Beings (1989) (2)
The Tristram Shandy Paradox: A Reply to Graham Oppy (2002) (2)
Instantaneous change without instants (2006) (2)
Classifying Reality: Oderberg/Classifying Reality (2013) (2)
A paradox about authority (1991) (2)
Is There a Right to be Wrong? (2000) (2)
Fission, Intermittence and the Primitiveness of Identity (1993) (1)
Intelligibility and intensionality (2002) (1)
Death, unity, and the brain (2019) (1)
Starved to death by order of the court. (2001) (1)
Response to Buckle. (1989) (1)
Conceivability and Possibility (2004) (1)
THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (1983) (1)
Morality, Religion, and Cosmic Justice (2011) (1)
Co-operation in the age of Hobby Lobby: when sincerity is not enough (2017) (1)
Disembodied Communication and Religious Experience: The Online Model (2012) (1)
The Kalam Cosmological Argument Neither Bloodied nor Bowed: A Response to Graham Oppy (2001) (1)
The Myth of Continuity: What’s Wrong with Four-Dimensionalism? (1993) (1)
The Order of Charity (2021) (1)
Mistake-Making: A Theoretical Framework for Generating Research Questions in Biology, With Illustrative Application to Blood Clotting (2022) (1)
Continuity as the Criterion of Identity over Time: The Classical Theory of Continuity (1993) (1)
On a So-called Demonstration of the Causal Power of Absences (2019) (1)
All for the Good (2015) (1)
Review: George Klosko, Jacobins and Utopians. University of Notre Dame Press, 2003 (2006) (0)
Principle of Sufficient Reason (2021) (0)
The engaged philosopher [Book Review] (1998) (0)
The Reality of Evil (2019) (0)
NATURAL LAW AND RIGHTS THEORY (2012) (0)
Academia's "Doctor Death" (1998) (0)
Religion and Normative Ethics (2015) (0)
The Singer controversy (1993) (0)
Nestorius (c.380–451) (2011) (0)
Finality revived: powers and intentionality (2016) (0)
The Basic Theory (2019) (0)
The Ontology of Stages (Being the Orthodox/Humean Theory of Identity) (1993) (0)
Hegel hits the beach (2004) (0)
The Myth of Continuity: A Coherent Ontology? (1993) (0)
The Doctrine of Double Effect (2010) (0)
Appearance and reality: what Plato can teach journalists and the media (2010) (0)
Developing the Scholastic Conception of Goodness (2019) (0)
Aspects of essence (2007) (0)
The structure of essence (2007) (0)
Contemporary essentialism and real essentialism (2007) (0)
Some varieties of anti-essentialism (2007) (0)
Reply to Sprigge on Personal and Impersonal Identity (1989) (0)
Evil as Cause and Effect (2019) (0)
Review of 'Summulae de dialectica' by J. Buridan, edited by G. Klima (2003) (0)
Review of 'Paradoxes from A to Z' by M. Clark (2003) (0)
The reality and knowability of essence (2007) (0)
Divine premotion (2015) (0)
Why I Am a Relativist (2003) (0)
PHS volume 54 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
Formal Causation (2021) (0)
Review of 'Causing actions' by P. Pietroski (2003) (0)
Causing Actions By Paul M. Pietroski Oxford University Press, 2000; £30.00 (HB) ISBN: 0198250428 (2003) (0)
Who’s afraid of reverse mereological essentialism? (2023) (0)
Perceptual relativism (1986) (0)
Response to commentaries: ‘Further clarity on cooperation and morality’ (2017) (0)
Perennial philosophy's theory of art (2004) (0)
Disembodied Communication and Religious Experience: The Online Model (2011) (0)
Species, biological and metaphysical (2007) (0)
The Storage Problem Revisited: A Reply to Díaz (2017) (0)
A Case for Inorganic Goodness (2019) (0)
The Good in the Living (2019) (0)
Ethics and Biotechnology (1996) (0)
Vincent De Paul (1581–1660) (2011) (0)
Restoring the Hierarchy of Being (2021) (0)
KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT AND THE MODERN (2018) (0)
PHS volume 54 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
SUMMULAE DE DIALECTICA (Book) (2003) (0)
Some Problems of Identity over Time Considered (1993) (0)
Adolf Grünbaum and the beginning of the Universe (1999) (0)
In Defence of the Privation Theory (2019) (0)
Essence and existence (2007) (0)
Some Problems of Identity over Time (1991) (0)
Joumnal of medical ethics , 1989 , 15 , 166-167 Correspondence Response to Buckle (0)
The war against the elderly (2000) (0)
J’accuse Peter Singer (2001) (0)
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist (2023) (0)
Kripke and ‘quus’ (2008) (0)
No beginning, no explanation: the kalām cosmological argument and the principle of sufficient reason (2017) (0)
The Impossibility of Natural Necessity (2018) (0)
Evil and Truthmaking (2019) (0)
Animals—the need for a new Catholicism (1989) (0)
Continuity as the Criterion of Identity over Time: Continuity without Stages? (1993) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

Other Resources About David S. Oderberg

en.wikipedia.org

What Schools Are Affiliated With David S. Oderberg?

David S. Oderberg is affiliated with the following schools: