| How could scientific facts be socially constructed? A Nelson Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (4), 535-547, 1994 | 90 | 1994 |
| Descartes's ontology of thought A Nelson Topoi 16 (2), 163-178, 1997 | 72 | 1997 |
| Some issues surrounding the reduction of macroeconomics to microeconomics A Nelson Philosophy of Science 51 (4), 573-594, 1984 | 60 | 1984 |
| Circumventing Cartesian Circles L Newman, A Nelson Noûs 33 (3), 370-404, 1999 | 59 | 1999 |
| The rationalist impulse A Nelson A companion to rationalism, 1-11, 2005 | 54* | 2005 |
| A companion to rationalism AJ Nelson Blackwell, 2005 | 43* | 2005 |
| The Falsity in Sensory Ideas: Descartes and Arnauld” A Nelson Interpreting Arnauld, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996 | 42 | 1996 |
| Port Royal Logic A Nelson, J Buroker Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/port-, 2022 | 38* | 2022 |
| Proofs for the Existence of God L Nolan, A Nelson | 36 | 2006 |
| Economic rationality and morality A Nelson Philosophy & public affairs 17 (2), 149-166, 1988 | 36 | 1988 |
| Are Economic Kinds Natural? A Nelson Savage, Scientific Theories, 102-36, 1990 | 33 | 1990 |
| Cartesian innateness A Nelson A Companion to Descartes, 319-333, 2007 | 27 | 2007 |
| Explanation and justification in political philosophy A Nelson Ethics, 154-176, 1986 | 27 | 1986 |
| New individualistic foundations for economics A Nelson Nous, 469-490, 1986 | 26 | 1986 |
| Divisibility and cartesian extension K Smith, A Nelson Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 5, 2010 | 25 | 2010 |
| Cognition and modality in Descartes A Nelson, D Cunning Acta Philosophica Fennica 64, 1999 | 25* | 1999 |
| Micro-chaos and idealization in cartesian physics A Nelson Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the …, 1995 | 20 | 1995 |
| Cartesian Actualism in the Leibniz-Arnauld Correspondence A Nelson Canadian Journal of Philosophy 23 (4), 675-694, 1993 | 19 | 1993 |
| The problem of true ideas in Spinoza’s treatise on the emendation of the intellect A Nelson The Young Spinoza: A Metaphysician in the Making, 52-65, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Descartes on the limited usefulness of mathematics A Nelson Synthese 196 (9), 3483-3504, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
David LandyProfessor of Philosophy, San Francisco State UniversityVerified email at sfsu.edu
