Philosophical Studies

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophical Studies is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Why bother with so what?57
Response to commentary on “Allocation of scarce resources, disability, and parity”47
Knowledge and merely predictive evidence30
Classical foundationalism and the dawning light26
Socrates on virtue, conventional goods, and happiness: a game-theoretic analysis25
Ability predicates, or there and back again22
Scientific understanding as narrative intelligibility19
Will AI avoid exploitation? Artificial general intelligence and expected utility theory19
Should epistemology take the zetetic turn?18
The multidimensional profile methodology (MPM) for comparative cognition: towards a universal strategy of understanding animal minds18
The independence solution to grue17
Liberal legitimacy and future citizens17
Is “Dysfunction” a Value-Neutral Concept?16
What do we see in pictures? The sensory individuals of picture perception16
The right of the river to be known: epistemic reparations, environmental justice, and Indigenous truth-telling about custodial group agents15
Group agents, moral competence and duty-bearers: the update argument15
Mind the gap: noncausal explanations of dual properties15
In search of lost principles: generic generalism in aesthetics and ethics15
Overlapping minds and the hedonic calculus15
Sorites and Inclosure14
Two conceptions of absolute generality13
Strict dominance and symmetry13
Resisting the epistemic argument for compatibilism12
Inherent and probabilistic naturalness12
How to be reasonable about the meaning of ‘ought’12
Perceptual consciousness and intensional transitive verbs11
What are we to do? Making sense of ‘joint ought’ talk10
Irony in song10
On the manipulator-focused response to manipulation cases10
The possibility of undistinguishedness10
Intersectionality as emergence10
The right to be known: its scope, demands, and the role of individuals and collectives10
Correction to: Greatest surprise reduction semantics: an information theoretic solution to misrepresentation and disjunction10
“Précis of Bias: A Philosophical Study”10
How to defend realism about impossible fiction without the principle of poetic license9
A causal theory of suppositional reasoning9
Extension and replacement9
Affective self-respect and affective injustice9
Vice-based accounts of moral evil8
Specificity and what is meant8
Semantics, lying, and additive particularised conversational implicatures8
Hylemorphic animalism and conjoined twins8
The Gödel case and beyond: Reassessing the cross-cultural style of semantics8
Understanding: it’s all interrogative7
Social kind essentialism7
Limitative computational explanations7
The aesthetics of coming to know someone7
Silence as complicity and action as silence7
Incommensurability and consistency7
The self-reinforcing nature of joint action7
Epistemic Health, Epistemic Immunity and Epistemic Inoculation7
Testimonial knowledge and content preservation7
Libertarianism, decision-making, and a point of no return7
Knowledge without dogmatism7
When should one be open-minded?7
Can we compare health states when our standards change?7
In defense of artificial suffering7
Why fittingness is only sometimes demand-like6
On the Relationship between Attitude and Process Norms. Comments on david Thorstad’s Inquiry Under Bounds6
Locative grounding harmony6
Logicality in natural language6
Intellectual courage and inquisitive reasons6
Informational richness and its impact on algorithmic fairness6
Deontology and safe artificial intelligence6
Closure and the structure of justification6
Promotionalism, orthogonality, and instrumental convergence5
Becoming oneself online: narrative self-constitution and the internet5
The medical model, with a human face5
Epistemic reparations and disability5
Moral Encroachment, Symmetry, and Believing Against the Evidence5
No Grounds for Fictionalism5
Atoms, combs, syllables and organisms5
Grievance politics and identities of resentment5
Resultant moral luck and the scope of moral responsibility5
Implicating fictional truth5
Perceptual expertise, universality, and objectivity5
A great ox stands in your mind: decolonial caution about epistemic reparations and the right to be known5
Relevance and the aim of fundamental metaphysics5
“Grasping” Morality5
Why do people represent time as dynamical? An investigation of temporal dynamism and the open future5
Brute fact parsimony5
Moral worth, right reasons and counterfactual motives5
Persistence and Structure5
Sor juana dreams of freedom: some comments on Dr. Aspe4
Justification as a dimension of rationality4
Attention and cognitive penetration: reflections on Dustin Stokes’ Thinking and Perceiving4
Valuable ignorance: delayed epistemic gratification4
Neurodiversity, identity, and hypostatic abstraction4
A new problem for telic virtue epistemology: private epistemic vices, public epistemic virtues4
Perceptual warrant and internal access4
Reply to my critics4
Indiscernibility and the grounds of identity4
Remembering and relearning: against exclusionism4
Four prejudices about scientific discovery and how to resolve them – with Alzheimer´s disease as a case study4
A new challenge for contingentists4
Bread prices and sea levels: why probabilistic causal models need to be monotonic4
Metaphysical foundationalism4
Private praise4
Why intentionalists can’t take painkillers4
Epistemic relations and epistemic reparations4
Correction to: Two-step approaches to healthcare allocation: how helpful is parity in selecting eligible options?4
Abduction, Skepticism, and Indirect Realism4
Correction to: Evidence and truth4
Arguments and closure4
Powers, persistence, and the problem of temporary intrinsics4
Grounding conditionals4
Conditional oughts and contrastive reasons4
Consistency, possibility, and Gödel: a reply to Pruss4
Rationally irresolvable disagreement4
Relational equality and the status of animals4
A plea for multilateralism4
Moral criticism, hypocrisy, and pragmatics4
Correction To: Credence and belief4
Difference-making and the control relation that grounds responsibility in hierarchical groups4
What Is Rational Sentimentalism?4
Disagreements in understanding4
Upwards essence3
Taught rules: Instruction and the evolution of norms3
Intention reconsideration in artificial agents: a structured account3
Social identity, understanding, and deference3
Allocation of scarce resources, disability, and parity3
Moral disagreement is special3
False confessions, epistemic agency, and repairing self-trust3
Moral encroachment and group-to-individual inferences3
The new internalism about prudential value3
A new rationalist account of the development of false-belief understanding3
The boundaries of gnoseology3
AI safety: a climb to Armageddon?3
The preface paradox and fragmented justification3
Explaining social kinds: the role of covert normativity3
Rights reclamation3
What’s in a name? Qualitativism and parsimony3
Free will in the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics3
Zetetic norms and the normative autonomy of logic3
Testing name swapping: Is Beyoncé really famous?3
Epistemic reparations and the right to be known: introduction3
Indeterminacy and collective harms3
Blameworthiness Implies ‘Ought not’3
Inferentialist expressivism, an unequal marriage?3
The hard proxy problem: proxies aren’t intentional; they’re intentional3
Desire and motivation in desire theories of well-being3
How not to intervene on mental causes3
What we know when we act3
Expressing (outweighed) reasons: a challenge for expressivism3
Proportionality and combat trauma3
Degrees of incoherence, Dutch bookability & guidance value3
Schroeder on reasons, experience, and evidence3
Risk-taking and tie-breaking3
Understanding blame3
Incommensurability and population-level bioethics3
Does being a ‘bad feminist’ make me a hypocrite? Politics, commitments and moral consistency3
How can the first order come first?3
Defensive debunking arguments: Why Moorean objections to the moral error theory fail3
Mananas, flusses and jartles: belief ascriptions in light of peripheral concept variation3
Consciousness as a cross-temporal tapestry3
Welfare comparisons within and across species3
Self-referring as self-directed action3
Bounded human knowledge: what this means and what it explains3
Epistemic normativity as autotelic: why suspension and judgment aren’t like archery3
Methodological worries for humean arguments from evil3
Freedom and relational equality3
Proportionality in the Aggregate3
The structure of moral encroachment3
Affect, desire and interpretation3
Epistemic negligence: between performance and evidence2
External world scepticism and self scepticism2
Climate change and state interference: the case of privacy2
Mereomodal partialhood and fractional counting2
The normative force of natural laws: Humean and non-Humean accounts of nomic normativity2
Acting for reasons and the metaphysics of time2
A pluralist account of epistemic repair2
Value encroachment on scientific understanding and discovery2
Fictional names, theoretical names, and indeterminate existence2
Meta-uncertainty and the proof paradoxes2
The multiple action account of filling a role2
Plumbing metaphysical explanatory depth2
Ground by Status2
Mechanistic indicators of understanding in large language models2
From belief change to modality: Epistemic semantics for modal and conditional logic2
Mental imagery and unconscious mental qualities: how to prevent mental imagery from being a cognitive luxury2
Free will, luck and control2
Epistemic reparations as social epistemic achievement2
Spacetime emergence and the fear of intimacy2
Maladjustment2
Doing what’s done: manners, morality, and practical reason2
Borderline consciousness, when it’s neither determinately true nor determinately false that experience is present2
When and why to empathize with political opponents2
Attention, moral skill, and algorithmic recommendation2
Expressivism about explanatory relevance2
Agentive Duality reconsidered2
Can one understand explanations of aesthetic value via testimony? Exploration of an issue from Sosa Epistemic Explanations Ch.12
The iterative solution to paradoxes for propositions2
Trying without fail2
Morphology, Knowledge and understanding. prolegomena to a pluralist manifesto2
Inquiry and trust: An epistemic balancing act2
Supersubstantivalism and vague location2
Learning from experience and conditionalization2
Superconditioning2
Are the folk utilitarian about animals?2
Reasons for action: making a difference to the security of outcomes2
The reason to be angry proportionally2
Normativity, prudence and welfare2
The prescriptive and the hypological: A radical detachment2
A Humean Non-Humeanism2
Withhold by default: a difference between epistemic and practical rationality2
Correction to: Animals in the order of public reason2
Coherence in Science: A Social Approach2
Panpsychism and ensemble explanations2
Reconceptualizing solidarity as power from below2
Two kinds of political understanding2
Understanding, justification and the agglomeration of risks of error2
Reasons-responsiveness, modality and rational blind spots2
Still no lie detector for language models: probing empirical and conceptual roadblocks2
Precis of ways to be blameworthy: rightness, wrongness, and responsibility2
The form of good2
Replies to Fitelson and Konek2
Explaining Harm2
Correction: A new problem for telic virtue epistemology: private epistemic vices, public epistemic virtues2
Plural harm: plural problems2
Owning failure: reason-responsiveness and responsibility for failed actions2
From representationalism to identity representationalism2
Grounding, necessity, and relevance2
Policing, undercover policing and ‘dirty hands’: the case of state entrapment2
Mereological Sums via Abstraction Principles2
Each counts for one2
Needs of the mind: how aptic normativity can guide conceptual adaptation2
Correction To: ‘Book Symposium: Julia Staffel’s Unsettled Thoughts’2
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