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Doug Stalker on Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

Clark Glymour of CMU has co-authored tons of times.

Neil Levy on Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

I have 12 listed on mine, which is hundreds less than I’ve co-authored with. So take it with a grain of salt.

Joel David Hamkins on Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

To my way of thinking, research collaboration is one of the true pleasures of research life. An initial discussion about a puzzle or conundrum might […]

Søren Aabye Kierkegaard on Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

I'm so glad that this was all disambiguated. I feel so inspired, too. [Tears running down his face]

JCM on New Plug-In Improves the SEP Experience

A fine little thing. I've installed this now. My thanks to Mr Chen, and may he flourish in his PhD!

chiulynnc on New Plug-In Improves the SEP Experience

By optimizing print-to-pdf.

Nicolas Delon on New Plug-In Improves the SEP Experience

I don't understand how the extension replaces the service. Maybe I'm missing something. (I also paid for the membership)

Author Co. on Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

A different but also interesting issue concerns the percentage of one's publications that are co-authored (perhaps given some minimum number of publications--five, say). [Maybe someone

Justin Weinberg on New Plug-In Improves the SEP Experience

Thanks for reminding everyone about the Friends of SEP program, which is worth joining apart from the printable PDFs, because it supports the SEP. Membership

chiulynnc on New Plug-In Improves the SEP Experience

I just subscribed and paid for the the "friends of the SEP" program to support their work and also to download printable pdfs. This extension

David Wallace on Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

My guess is that the philosopher with most co-authors - by far - is Owen Maroney (Oxford), who was a member of the CMS collaboration, […]

SCM on Which Philosopher Co-Authors Most?

Like Colorado for shark attacks, I'm joint first for least!

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