OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena	50
The value of common knowledge	43
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis	26
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning	24
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination	23
Language games and the emergence of discourse	23
Imagining one experience to be another	19
Long-arm functional individuation of computation	19
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency	18
Argumentation and the problem of agreement	17
Credal accuracy and knowledge	15
Science advice: making credences accurate	15
The necessity of conceivability	15
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences	15
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering	14
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception	14
The dynamical essence of powers	14
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context	13
Artifactual normativity	13
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox	12
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus	10
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations	10
Knot much like tonk	10
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism	10
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements	10

Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics	10
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach	10
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling	9
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem	9
Causal fundamentality	9
One world is (probably) just as good as many	9
Disagreement in philosophy	9
What are mathematical diagrams?	9
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments	8
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations	8
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations	8
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle	8
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion	8
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias	8
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity	8
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding	7
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models	7
Unsettledness in times of change	7
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition	6
The paradox paradox	6
The physicality of representation	6
Interests from and in conventions	6
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory	6
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better	6
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions	6
Reasoning by grounded analogy	6
A new solution to the safety dilemma	6
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice	6
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment	5
Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research	5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events	5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance	5
Don’t worry, be happy?	5
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’	5
Semantic theories, linguistic essences, and knowledge of meaning	5
Nominalist dispositional essentialism	5
Cut-off points for the rational believer	4
Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination	4
Contraries, oppositions, and contradictions: a species/genus account of humean contrariety	4
Trusting scientific experts in an online world	4
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?	4
Understanding causation	4
Spacetime: function and approximation	4
Belief does not entail a reasoning disposition	4
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency	4
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection	4
A fixed-point problem for theories of meaning	4
Preventive and curative medical interventions	4
Mathematics embodied: Merleau-Ponty on geometry and algebra as fields of motor enaction	4
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing	4

Explaining coincidences	4
Against telic monism in logic	3
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction	3
Merely superficially contingent a priori knowledge and the McKinsey paradox	3
Causality and determination revisited	3
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement	3
Why classical logic is privileged: justification of logics based on translatability	3
A new problem for internalism	3
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood	3
Deliberation and confidence change	3
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?	3
Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience	3
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance	3
The transparency of expressivism	3
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?	3
Action control, forward models and expected rewards: representations in reinforcement learning	3
Brownian motion from a deterministic system of particles	3
Conceptual domination	3
Dispositions manifest themselves: an identity theory of properties	3
Confirmation by analogy	3
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology	3
In defence of epistemic vices	3
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue	3
The mathematical stance	3
A novel understanding of the nature of epistemic vice	3
Open future, supervaluationism and the growing-block theory: a stage-theoretical account	3
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty	3
Sensing mind-independence	3
Does loudness represent sound intensity?	2
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic	2
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics	2
The a-theory of time, temporal passage, and comprehensiveness	2
Intelligence involves intensionality: An explanatory issue for radical enactivism (again)	2
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology	2
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies	2
Minimal contents, lying, and conventions of language	2
The determinacy of computation	2
Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism	2
Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts	2
A plea for distinctions (counterfactuals and differential equations)	2
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies	2
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal	2
On luck and significance	2
Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles	2
A reductive analysis of statements about universals	2
Dynamic probability and the problem of initial conditions	2
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up	2
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought	2
Anxious feelings, anxious friends: on anxiety and friendship	2
Causation comes in degrees	2
Ostrich tropes	2
Disagreement and epistemic improvement	2
Science, assertion, and the common ground	2
Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation	2
Infinite frequency principles of direct inference	2
Motor representation in acting together	2
Possibility, relevant similarity, and structural knowledge	2
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science	2
Knowing more (about questions)	2
Expressing logical disagreement from within	2