| On the very idea of a ‘specific’medium: Michael Fried and Stanley Cavell on painting and photography as arts D Costello Critical Inquiry 34 (2), 274-312, 2008 | 71 | 2008 |
| Aura, face, photography: Re-reading Benjamin today D Costello Walter Benjamin and art, 164-184, 2005 | 62 | 2005 |
| Greenberg's Kant and the fate of aesthetics in contemporary art theory D Costello The Journal of aesthetics and art criticism 65 (2), 217-228, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| The life and death of images: ethics and aesthetics D Costello, D Willsdon Cornell University Press, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| The life and death of images: ethics and aesthetics D Costello, D Willsdon Cornell University Press, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Photography after conceptual art D Costello, M Iversen John Wiley & Sons, 2011 | 53 | 2011 |
| On photography: a philosophical inquiry D Costello Routledge, 2017 | 51 | 2017 |
| Automatism, causality and realism: Foundational problems in the philosophy of photography D Costello, DM Phillips Philosophy Compass 4 (1), 1-21, 2009 | 51 | 2009 |
| Art: key contemporary thinkers J Vickery, D Costello Berg, 2007 | 51 | 2007 |
| Danto and Kant, together at last? D Costello New Waves in Aesthetics, 244-266, 2008 | 40 | 2008 |
| ON LATE STYLE: ARTHUR DANTO’S THE ABUSE OF BEAUTY D Costello The British Journal of Aesthetics 44 (4), 424-439, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| Conceptual Limitations of Our Reflection on Photography: The Question of “Interdisciplinarity” J Baetens Photography Theory, 63-84, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| Kant after LeWitt: Towards an aesthetics of conceptual art D Costello Philosophy and conceptual art, 92-116, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
| After medium specificity Chez Fried: Jeff Wall as a painter; Gerhard Richter as a photographer D Costello Photography theory, 85-100, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| Introduction: Photography between art history and philosophy D Costello, M Iversen Critical Inquiry 38 (4), 679-693, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
| Kant and the Problem of Strong Non-Perceptual Art D Costello British Journal of Aesthetics 53 (3), 277-298, 2013 | 22 | 2013 |
| Automat, Automatic, Automatism: Rosalind Krauss and Stanley Cavell on Photography and the Photographically Dependent Arts D Costello Critical Inquiry 38 (4), 819-854, 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| The Question Concerning Photography D Costello The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 70 (1), 101-113, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Aura, rostro, fotografía: releer a Benjamin hoy D Costello Walter Benjamin: culturas de la imagen, 99-140, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
| What's So New about the “New” Theory of Photography? D Costello The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (4), 439-452, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
