Synthese

Papers
(The median citation count of Synthese 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis190
Knowledge and reasoning57
A graded semantics for counterfactuals47
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena44
Megarian Variable Actualism38
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?37
The value of common knowledge35
Language games and the emergence of discourse33
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism32
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination22
Imagining one experience to be another21
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning21
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link20
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations19
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism18
The liberation of nature and knowledge: a case study on Hans Reichenbach’s naturalism17
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency17
On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion16
Local causation16
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem15
Argumentation and the problem of agreement15
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences15
Interventionist counterfactuals and the nearness of worlds15
Defending understanding-assent links14
A rational route to transformative decisions14
Long-arm functional individuation of computation14
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination14
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony13
The necessity of conceivability13
Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations13
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering13
Unity of the intellectual virtues12
Dutch Book against Lewis12
Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge12
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior12
A puzzle about epistemic value and steps towards a solution12
Science advice: making credences accurate12
The dynamical essence of powers11
Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism11
Credal accuracy and knowledge11
In defence of constitutive rules11
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach11
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context11
Artifactual normativity11
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time10
Knot much like tonk10
The no-free-lunch theorems of supervised learning10
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception10
Correction to: Fighting About Frequency10
How can representationalism accommodate degrees of belief? A dispositional representationalist proposal10
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization10
Should a higher-order metaphysician believe in properties?10
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox10
Fitting anxiety and prudent anxiety10
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements10
Causal fundamentality9
On the pragmatic and epistemic virtues of inference to the best explanation9
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem9
Why undermining evolutionary debunkers is not enough9
Defeaters and the generality problem9
An epistemological problem for minimalist views about composition9
The value of cost-free uncertain evidence8
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism8
Strategic manipulation in Bayesian dialogues8
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations8
What are mathematical diagrams?8
Making a difference in virtue epistemology8
How (not) to construct worlds with responsibility8
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics8
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus8
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling8
Wittgenstein, deflationism and moral entities8
How are fictions given? Conjoining the ‘artifactual theory’ and the ‘imaginary-object theory’8
Correction to: Another way logic might be normative8
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations8
Disagreement in philosophy8
KNOWING HOW as a philosophical hybrid8
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias8
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion8
A classical way forward for the regularity and normalization problems8
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity7
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation7
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments7
One world is (probably) just as good as many7
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations7
The mechanism—the secret—of the given7
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors7
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory7
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations7
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle6
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models6
Reasoning by grounded analogy6
Imagination, expectation, and “thoughts entangled in metaphors”6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition6
Unsettledness in times of change6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding6
Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience6
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements6
The paradox paradox6
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism6
The “All Lives Matter” response: QUD-shifting as epistemic injustice6
Strong knowledge, weak belief?6
Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism6
Extended cognition, assistive technology and education6
Interests from and in conventions6
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts6
An externalist teleology6
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment5
A psychological theory of reasoning as logical evidence: a Piagetian perspective5
The future ain’t what it used to be5
Don’t worry, be happy?5
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’5
Communicating in contextual ignorance5
Generics as instructions5
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions5
Preventive and curative medical interventions5
Credible Futures5
A fixed-point problem for theories of meaning5
From speech to voice: on the content of inner speech5
A new solution to the safety dilemma5
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events5
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses5
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice5
Spacetime: function and approximation5
Semantic theories, linguistic essences, and knowledge of meaning5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance5
A problem for extensional theories of time-consciousness5
Humeanism in light of quantum gravity5
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory5
The physicality of representation5
Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher: a preliminary report5
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue4
The mathematical stance4
Social constructivism in mathematics? The promise and shortcomings of Julian Cole’s institutional account4
Open future, supervaluationism and the growing-block theory: a stage-theoretical account4
Action control, forward models and expected rewards: representations in reinforcement learning4
Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination4
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing4
Explaining coincidences4
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded: habits, ecological psychology, and skilled performance4
Artifacts and mind-dependence4
Neighborhood semantics for logic of knowing how4
Cut-off points for the rational believer4
A novel understanding of the nature of epistemic vice4
Thinking about idealization, abstraction and scientific models: an introduction4
Coordination in theory extension: how Reichenbach can help us understand endogenization in evolutionary biology4
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection4
Composition as identity, now with all the pluralities you could want4
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?4
Brownian motion from a deterministic system of particles4
Intuitions, theory choice and the ameliorative character of logical theories4
Belief does not entail a reasoning disposition4
Tracking probabilistic truths: a logic for statistical learning4
Correction to: When nothing looks blue4
Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research4
How can belief be akratic?4
On modality in fiction4
Contraries, oppositions, and contradictions: a species/genus account of humean contrariety4
Causality and determination revisited4
The transparency of expressivism4
Resolving empirical controversies with mechanistic evidence4
Tropes variations: the topic of particulars beyond Sellars’s myth of the given4
Mathematics embodied: Merleau-Ponty on geometry and algebra as fields of motor enaction4
Why classical logic is privileged: justification of logics based on translatability4
Understanding causation4
Empathy with vicious perspectives? A puzzle about the moral limits of empathetic imagination4
Degrees of riskiness, falsifiability, and truthlikeness4
Nominalist dispositional essentialism4
Trusting scientific experts in an online world4
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency4
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?3
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance3
Existential dread and the B-theory of time3
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state3
Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies3
The variety and limits of self-experience and identification in imagination3
Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals3
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty3
The time-lag argument and simultaneity3
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium3
P, but you don’t know that P3
Calculus as method or calculus as rules? Boole and Frege on the aims of a logical calculus3
Conceptual domination3
A paradox about sets of properties3
In defence of epistemic vices3
The clinical significance of anomalous experience in the explanation of monothematic delusions3
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood3
Rationality in games and institutions3
Epistemic austerity: limits to entitlement3
Reward tampering problems and solutions in reinforcement learning: a causal influence diagram perspective3
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: design for natural and artificial systems3
Confirmation by analogy3
The cost of closure: logical realism, anti-exceptionalism, and theoretical equivalence3
Against Hirsch's metaontological deflationism3
Virtue theory of mathematical practices: an introduction3
The meta-wisdom of crowds3
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?3
In defense of flip-flopping3
Grounding and a priori epistemology: challenges for conceptualism3
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC3
Goff’s revelation thesis and the epistemology of colour discrimination3
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics3
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement3
Deliberation and confidence change3
How emotions are perceived3
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology3
Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience3
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction3
Merely superficially contingent a priori knowledge and the McKinsey paradox3
Sensing mind-independence3
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations3
Against telic monism in logic3
‘Animals run about the world in all sorts of paths’: varieties of indeterminism3
Strategic justice, conventionalism, and bargaining theory3
Causation and cognition: an epistemic approach3
Acquaintance, knowledge, and value3
A new problem for internalism3
Trustworthy simulations and their epistemic hierarchy3
Reasoning and its limits2
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics2
Modeling the precautionary principle with lexical utilities2
Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem2
Models, structures, and the explanatory role of mathematics in empirical science2
Anxious feelings, anxious friends: on anxiety and friendship2
Virtues for agents in directed social networks2
Expressing logical disagreement from within2
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics2
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology2
Ostrich tropes2
Knowledge attribution, socioeconomic status, and education: new results using the Great British Class Survey2
Salience and metaphysical explanation2
Logic talk2
Non-classical probabilities invariant under symmetries2
No normative free lunch: relevance and the autonomy of the normative domain2
A Peircean examination of Gettier’s two cases2
The epistemic value of independent lies: false analogies and equivocations2
Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts2
Phenomenal intentionality, inner awareness, and the given2
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies2
Correction to: Editorial: symmetries and asymmetries in physics2
Disagreement and epistemic improvement2
Correction to: The nature of disagreement: matters of taste and environs2
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic2
Emotions as indeterminate justifiers2
Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism2
Truthlikeness for probabilistic laws2
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal2
Does loudness represent sound intensity?2
The knowledge norm of assertion: keep it simple2
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