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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
A contemporary example of Reichenbachian coordination175
The mathematical stance51
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis45
Asymmetry cannot solve the circularity/regress problem of property structuralism40
Building low level causation out of high level causation40
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue35
Conventions, morals and strategy: Greta’s dilemma and the incarceration game33
What is so special about episodic memory: lessons from the system-experience distinction31
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought28
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science26
The value of common knowledge26
Correction to: First-person representations and responsible agency in AI26
Moral encroachment and the epistemic impermissibility of (some) microaggressions22
The key to the knowledge norm of action is ambiguity22
The strong arm of the law: a unified account of necessary and contingent laws of nature22
Four Dilemmas of the "Superstring theory" and new responses from the "Singularity theory" in the view of Information Ontology20
Metaphysics, bullshit, and the analysis of philosophical problems19
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics19
Illocutionary pluralism19
A graded semantics for counterfactuals19
Context-sensitivity and the Preface Paradox for credence18
A Battle in the Statistics Wars: a simulation-based comparison of Bayesian, Frequentist and Williamsonian methodologies15
Intentional mind-wandering as intentional omission: the surrealist method15
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements15
Social constructivism in mathematics? The promise and shortcomings of Julian Cole’s institutional account14
Acquaintance, knowledge, and value14
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?14
When is an ensemble like a sample? “Model-based” inferences in climate modeling14
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood14
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement14
Generics: some (non) specifics14
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory13
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?13
Knowledge and reasoning13
Causation comes in degrees12
Computational modeling in philosophy: introduction to a topical collection12
True lies and Moorean redundancy12
Austrian economics without extreme apriorism: A critical reply12
Philosophy’s gender gap and argumentative arena: an empirical study12
Explanation, justification, and egalitarianism12
Anti-exceptionalism, truth and the BA-plan11
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models11
Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism11
‘I love women’: an explicit explanation of implicit bias test results11
Approaching probabilistic laws11
Fundamentality from grounding trees10
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism10
Typing testimony10
Imagining one experience to be another10
The transparency of expressivism10
Making imagination even more embodied: imagination, constraint and epistemic relevance10
Conceptualizing causal powers: activity, capacity, essence, necessitation10
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies10
Normalisation and subformula property for a system of intuitionistic logic with general introduction and elimination rules10
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations10
Causality and determination revisited10
Resolving empirical controversies with mechanistic evidence10
Megarian Variable Actualism9
The problem of perceptual invariance9
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination9
Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience9
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation9
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena9
Unification and mathematical explanation in science8
What is it like to be a chimpanzee?8
Why go for a computation-based approach to cognitive representation8
Metasemantics and boydian synthetic moral naturalism8
Coordination in theory extension: how Reichenbach can help us understand endogenization in evolutionary biology8
How interventionist accounts of causation work in experimental practice and why there is no need to worry about supervenience8
Predicates of personal taste: empirical data8
A puzzle about laws and explanation8
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning8
What have we learned about the engram?8
Strong knowledge, weak belief?8
Epistemicism and response-dependence8
There is nothing to identity8
Ethical Mooreanism8
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle8
Trustworthy simulations and their epistemic hierarchy8
Emergence within social systems8
Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction8
Points of convergence between logical empiricism and inductive metaphysics: Hans Reichenbach and Erich Becher in comparison8
The clinical significance of anomalous experience in the explanation of monothematic delusions8
Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem7
Grounding and a priori epistemology: challenges for conceptualism7
The fittingness of emotions7
Ostrich tropes7
The structuralist approach to underdetermination7
Language games and the emergence of discourse7
Correction to: The nature of disagreement: matters of taste and environs7
Defending understanding-assent links7
Modeling the precautionary principle with lexical utilities7
Truthmaking for Meinongians7
On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion7
Introduction to special issue: Skepticism and Epistemic Angst7
Underdetermination, holism, and feminist philosophy of science7
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination7
Uncertainty, equality, fraternity7
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link7
Emotion as High-level Perception7
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism7
A new problem for internalism7
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic7
Unsettledness in times of change6
Perceptual presentation and the Myth of the Given6
Argumentation and the problem of agreement6
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics6
There is overlap in letters: a mereological definition of word types6
Disagreement and epistemic improvement6
Criteria for naturalness in conceptual spaces6
Dormant and active emotional states6
Interventionist counterfactuals and the nearness of worlds6
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts6
The liberation of nature and knowledge: a case study on Hans Reichenbach’s naturalism6
Same-tracking real kinds in the social sciences6
No ground to bridge the gap6
Against Hirsch's metaontological deflationism6
Are we free to imagine what we choose?6
Putting representations to use6
The paradox paradox6
Reichenbach: scientific realist and logical empricist?6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding6
The “All Lives Matter” response: QUD-shifting as epistemic injustice6
Evidential pluralism and evidence of mechanisms in the social sciences6
The epistemic value of deliberative democracy: how far can diversity take us?6
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency6
Understanding and scientific progress: lessons from epistemology6
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem6
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism6
Correction to: Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited6
Is cultural evolution always fast? Challenging the idea that cognitive gadgets would be capable of rapid and adaptive evolution6
Understanding Frege’s notion of presupposition5
Imagination, expectation, and “thoughts entangled in metaphors”5
Conjunctive paraconsistency5
The distinct existences argument revisited5
Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency5
Agential thinking5
Epistemic austerity: limits to entitlement5
Recognizing why vision is inferential5
Reasoning by grounded analogy5
Reasoning and its limits5
Demystifying the myth of sensation: Wilfrid Sellars’ adverbialism reconsidered5
Revelation and the intuition of dualism5
An externalist teleology5
Synthetic a priori judgments and Kant’s response to Hume on induction5
What epistemologists of testimony should learn from philosophers of science5
Bernoulli’s golden theorem in retrospect: error probabilities and trustworthy evidence5
Interests from and in conventions5
Deliberation and confidence change5
Screening off generalized: Reichenbach’s legacy5
Correction to: Editorial: symmetries and asymmetries in physics5
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations5
Salience and metaphysical explanation5
Perspectives on de se immunity5
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations5
Goff’s revelation thesis and the epistemology of colour discrimination5
Feynman diagrams5
Where are the chances?5
In defense of flip-flopping5
Logic talk5
Ramsey’s conditionals4
Getting counterfactuals right: the perspective of the causal reasoner4
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium4
Local causation4
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies4
In defence of epistemic vices4
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior4
Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge4
Quantum pointillism with relational identity4
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: design for natural and artificial systems4
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state4
Do reasons drain away?4
Salience reasoning in coordination games4
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling I: Systems and applicability4
Meaning change and changing meaning4
Conceptual domination4
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition4
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology4
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty4
Knowledge attribution, socioeconomic status, and education: new results using the Great British Class Survey4
Problems of empirical solutions to the theory-ladenness of observation4
A paradox about sets of properties4
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice4
Getting a little closure for closure4
How emotions are perceived4
Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher: a preliminary report4
Long-arm functional individuation of computation4
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences4
Non-classical probabilities invariant under symmetries4
Extended cognition, assistive technology and education4
Bodies in skilled performance: how dancers reflect through the living body4
Arithmetic, enumerative induction and size bias4
The meta-wisdom of crowds4
The future ain’t what it used to be4
Natural kinds of mental disorder4
The silver bullet: justice as mutual advantage and the vulnerability objection4
Unity of the intellectual virtues4
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment4
Phenomenal intentionality, inner awareness, and the given4
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory3
Credal accuracy and knowledge3
Generics as instructions3
Conditionals and specific links—an experimental study3
Expressing logical disagreement from within3
Virtues for agents in directed social networks3
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance3
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology3
Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics3
From speech to voice: on the content of inner speech3
Philosophy and cognitive science on spatial and temporal experience3
Alethic pluralism for pragmatists3
The affective and normative intentionality of skilled performance: a radical embodied approach3
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance3
The epistemic value of independent lies: false analogies and equivocations3
Correction to: Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context3
Perceptual justification in the Bayesian brain: a foundherentist account3
P, but you don’t know that P3
Dutch Book against Lewis3
‘Animals run about the world in all sorts of paths’: varieties of indeterminism3
Causation and cognition: an epistemic approach3
Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts3
Radical interpretation and decision theory3
Calculus as method or calculus as rules? Boole and Frege on the aims of a logical calculus3
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better3
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony3
Strategic justice, conventionalism, and bargaining theory3
Truthlikeness for probabilistic laws3
Collaborative knowledge: Where the distributed and commitment models merge3
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses3
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions3
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal3
A puzzle about epistemic value and steps towards a solution3
Frege on intuition and objecthood in projective geometry3
What do propositions explain? Inflationary vs. deflationary perspectives and the case of singular propositions3
A kind route from grounding to fundamentality3
Practical reasoning and degrees of outright belief3
Existential dread and the B-theory of time3
Correction to: Coalescent theories and divergent paraphrases: definites, non-extensional contexts, and familiarity3
On testimonial knowledge and its functions3
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering3
Reichenbach's best alternative account to the problem of induction3
Epistemic feelings, metacognition, and the Lima problem3
The physicality of representation3
The directionality of topological explanations3
Rationality in games and institutions3
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’3
Weighing the costs: the epistemic dilemma of no-platforming3
Humeanism in light of quantum gravity3
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics3
Should pluralists be pluralists about pluralism?3
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