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Papers

(The median citation count of Synthese is 3. 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 2022-03-01 to 2026-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Language games and the emergence of discourse	57
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination	48
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning	28
Argumentation and the problem of agreement	24
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency	21
Science advice: making credences accurate	20
Credal accuracy and knowledge	19
The necessity of conceivability	19
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering	18
Artifactual normativity	17
Knot much like tonk	16
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox	16
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements	12
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach	12
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling	11
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism	10
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations	10
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem	10
What are mathematical diagrams?	10
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments	9
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias	9
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations	9
One world is (probably) just as good as many	9
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion	9
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding	8

Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models	8
Unsettledness in times of change	8
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations	8
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition	7
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better	7
The paradox paradox	7
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events	6
Nominalist dispositional essentialism	6
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment	6
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance	6
A new solution to the safety dilemma	6
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice	6
Spacetime: function and approximation	5
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency	5
Preventive and curative medical interventions	5
Don’t worry, be happy?	5
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?	5
Cut-off points for the rational believer	5
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing	5
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?	4
The transparency of expressivism	4
Minimal contents, lying, and conventions of language	4
Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination	4
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty	4
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance	4
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology	4
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection	4
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology	4
Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience	4
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction	4
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up	3
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies	3
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic	3
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science	3
Intelligence involves intensionality: An explanatory issue for radical enactivism (again)	3
Infinite frequency principles of direct inference	3
The a-theory of time, temporal passage, and comprehensiveness	3
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies	3
Motor representation in acting together	3
Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles	3
Causation comes in degrees	3
Expressing logical disagreement from within	3