| Dignity: A history R Debes Oxford University Press, 2017 | 99 | 2017 |
| Humanity, sympathy and the puzzle of Hume's second enquiry R Debes British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (1), 27-57, 2007 | 72 | 2007 |
| Dignity's gauntlet R Debes Philosophical Perspectives 23, 45-78, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |
| From einfühlung to empathy R Debes Sympathy: A history, 286-322, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
| Adam Smith on dignity and equality R Debes British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (1), 109-140, 2012 | 57 | 2012 |
| Has anything changed? Hume's theory of association and sympathy after the Treatise R Debes British Journal for the History of Philosophy 15 (2), 313-338, 2007 | 55 | 2007 |
| Which empathy? Limitations in the mirrored “understanding” of emotion R Debes Synthese 175, 219-239, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Neither here nor there: the cognitive nature of emotion R Debes Philosophical Studies 146, 1-27, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| Empathy and mirror neurons R Debes The Routledge handbook of philosophy of empathy, 54-63, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| Dignity R Debes | 16 | 2023 |
| Adam Smith and the Sympathetic Imagination R Debes Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy, 192-207, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
| Ethical sentimentalism: New perspectives R Debes, KR Stueber Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Understanding persons and the problem of power R Debes Making Sense of the World: New Essays on the Philosophy of Understanding, 54-77, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Recasting Scottish sentimentalism: The peculiarity of moral approval R Debes Journal of Scottish Philosophy 10 (1), 91-115, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| The Authority of Empathy (Or, How to Ground Sentimentalism) R Debes Ethical Sentimentalism: New Perspectives, 171-191, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| Human dignity before Kant: Denis Diderot’s passionate person R Debes Dignity: A history, 203, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Moral Rationalism and Moral Realism R Debes The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy, 500-534, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| Dignity is delicate R Debes Aeon (17 September), 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| A history of human dignity R Debes The forum for philosophy, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| Empathy and Ethics R Debes The Southern journal of philosophy 49, 2011 | 5 | 2011 |
