As you read the list, which ones influenced Judiasm and which did not? Kuhn has not been used to discuss change, we usually still find the 19th century views of Hegel or von Savigny. From the comments here and elsewhere, we desperately needed a Jewish follower of Rawls in 1990. Most people did not need Post-modernism or literary criticism, but they did need an updated, beyond Dewey, rational approach which Rawls would have provided. Dworkin is used by Halbertal- people here are still jumping to Robert Cover for the role of ethics in halakhah, when what they really need is Dworkin. Wittgenstein is part of the Orthodox intellectual’s toolkit but no substantive engagement. MacIntyre is converted into virtue drush. There is still time for Searle’s Speech Acts or Taylor’s ever-changing self to find a Jewish voice. Feyerabend is too much to hope for. Nevertheless, I am forever amazed when rabbis who pride themselves that they are contemporary philosophers who quote Dewey or James as their last significant thinker.
The Most Cited Books in Post-WWII Anglophone Philosophy According to Google Scholar (in parentheses: total number of on-line articles and books citing the book in question):
1. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (37,197)
2. John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (26,768)
3. Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (7,892)
4. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (7,169)
5. Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue (6,579)
6. Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (6,356)
6. John Rawls, Political Liberalism (6,352)
8. Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (6,246)
8. H.L.A. Hart, The Concept of Law (6,212)
10. Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (5,616)
11. John Searle, Speech Acts (5,387)
12. Jerry Fodor, Modularity of Mind (5,050)
13. Daniel Dennett, Consciousness Explained (4,810)
14. Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity (4,535)
14. W.V.O. Quine, Word and Object (4,565)
Runners-up: Paul Feyerabend, Against Method (4,420); Richard Rorty, Contingency, Irony and Solidarity (4,011); Charles Taylor, Sources of the Self (3,233); Jerry Fodor, The Language of Thought (3,292); Carl Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation (3,137); David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind (3,065), Daniel Dennett, The Intentional Stance (2,985); Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (2,972).
The Book of Doctrines and Opinions: 