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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: a consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing153
Pain and the field of affordances: an enactive approach to acute and chronic pain39
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning38
Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency33
The no-free-lunch theorems of supervised learning32
Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited31
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior30
Lying, speech acts, and commitment29
Video on demand: what deepfakes do and how they harm25
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics25
Your word against mine: the power of uptake22
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies22
Making imagination even more embodied: imagination, constraint and epistemic relevance21
Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors21
Reward tampering problems and solutions in reinforcement learning: a causal influence diagram perspective20
Illocutionary pluralism20
A critical analysis of Markovian monism20
Mathematics, ethics and purism: an application of MacIntyre’s virtue theory17
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics17
Bias in science: natural and social16
Deflating the functional turn in conceptual engineering16
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization16
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection16
Hedging and the ignorance norm on inquiry16
Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs15
Embodied skillful performance: where the action is15
How to have a metalinguistic dispute15
Imagining the past reliably and unreliably: towards a virtue theory of memory15
Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution14
Why robots can’t haka: skilled performance and embodied knowledge in the Māori haka14
Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation14
Opacity thought through: on the intransparency of computer simulations14
Conjunctive paraconsistency14
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology14
Prospecting performance: rehearsal and the nature of imagination14
Eight journals over eight decades: a computational topic-modeling approach to contemporary philosophy of science14
Representational similarity analysis in neuroimaging: proxy vehicles and provisional representations13
Understanding scientific progress: the noetic account12
Defective food concepts12
Conceptual domination12
When scale is surplus12
Modelling ourselves: what the free energy principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation12
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded: habits, ecological psychology, and skilled performance12
Predicates of personal taste: empirical data12
The indeterminacy of computation12
Abductive reasoning in cognitive neuroscience: weak and strong reverse inference12
Individuating the senses of ‘smell’: orthonasal versus retronasal olfaction12
What is the myth of the given?11
An externalist teleology11
Putting representations to use11
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering11
Structural representations do not meet the job description challenge11
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations11
Four ways of (mis-)conceiving embodiment in tool use11
Skill and strategic control11
The visibility of philosophy of science in the sciences, 1980–201810
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception10
Artifacts and mind-dependence10
Intellectual humility in mathematics10
Contingent grounding10
Wave-functionalism10
Behavioural modernity, investigative disintegration & Rubicon expectation10
The physicality of representation10
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts10
Radicalizing numerical cognition10
Reviving frequentism10
Virtue theory of mathematical practices: an introduction10
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination10
In defence of epistemic vices10
The computational philosophy: simulation as a core philosophical method9
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology9
The skill of self-control9
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors9
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations9
The fittingness of emotions9
A Battle in the Statistics Wars: a simulation-based comparison of Bayesian, Frequentist and Williamsonian methodologies9
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity9
Two dogmas of dynamicism9
The clinical significance of anomalous experience in the explanation of monothematic delusions9
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach8
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up8
Long-arm functional individuation of computation8
What have we learned about the engram?8
Logic and science: science and logic8
Nominalist dispositional essentialism8
Enactive planning in rock climbing: recalibration, visualization and nested affordances8
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies8
Mathematizing as a virtuous practice: different narratives and their consequences for mathematics education and society8
Bootstrapping of integer concepts: the stronger deviant-interpretation challenge (and how to solve it)8
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism8
Explaining universality: infinite limit systems in the renormalization group method8
Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction8
Affective shifts: mood, emotion and well-being7
Practical reasoning and degrees of outright belief7
Virtues for agents in directed social networks7
Statistical resentment, or: what’s wrong with acting, blaming, and believing on the basis of statistics alone7
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium7
The problem of perceptual invariance7
Should one trust experts?7
The mirror of physics: on how the Price equation can unify evolutionary biology7
How signaling conventions are established7
Untying the knot: imagination, perception and their neural substrates7
Can happiness measures be calibrated?7
Argumentation and the problem of agreement7
The epistemic value of deliberative democracy: how far can diversity take us?7
There is nothing to identity7
Social constructivism in mathematics? The promise and shortcomings of Julian Cole’s institutional account7
Yet again, quantum indeterminacy is not worldly indecision7
There is no reason to replace the Razor with the Laser7
The brittleness of expertise and why it matters7
Broad Medical Uncertainty and the ethical obligation for openness7
A rational route to transformative decisions7
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations7
Feynman diagrams7
Hybrid collective intentionality7
Empathy with vicious perspectives? A puzzle about the moral limits of empathetic imagination7
Motor representation in acting together7
Standing to epistemically blame7
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?6
An analysis of Existential Graphs–part 2: Beta6
Perceptual justification in the Bayesian brain: a foundherentist account6
The directionality of topological explanations6
Evidential pluralism and evidence of mechanisms in the social sciences6
Extended cognition, assistive technology and education6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition6
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models6
Delusional evidence-responsiveness6
Changing use of formal methods in philosophy: late 2000s vs. late 2010s6
Fitting anxiety and prudent anxiety6
Communicating in contextual ignorance6
Epistemic feelings, metacognition, and the Lima problem6
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link6
Criteria for naturalness in conceptual spaces6
Fodor’s guide to the Humean mind6
Acquaintance, knowledge, and value6
Do fictions explain?6
Propping up the causal theory6
First-person representations and responsible agency in AI6
Practical concepts and productive reasoning6
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics6
Bodies in skilled performance: how dancers reflect through the living body6
Meaning change and changing meaning6
Agential thinking6
Anti-exceptionalism, truth and the BA-plan6
Do we really need a knowledge-based decision theory?6
Causally powerful processes5
Anti-intellectualism, instructive representations, and the intentional action argument5
Fighting about frequency5
Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles5
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal5
Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?5
The indeterminate present and the open future5
Justifying method choice: a heuristic-instrumentalist account of scientific methodology5
Are we free to imagine what we choose?5
Logical abductivism and non-deductive inference5
Dispositionality, categoricity, and where to find them5
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue5
Intentional mind-wandering as intentional omission: the surrealist method5
Causation comes in degrees5
Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism5
What are mathematical diagrams?5
Models, structures, and the explanatory role of mathematics in empirical science5
Logic as a methodological discipline5
A novel approach to equality5
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency5
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory5
Between pebbles and organisms: weaving autonomy into the Markov blanket5
The epistemic value of independent lies: false analogies and equivocations5
Vacillating time: a metaphysics for time travel and Geachianism5
Perspectives on de se immunity5
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences5
Emotion as High-level Perception5
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements5
Conceptualizing causal powers: activity, capacity, essence, necessitation5
In defence of constitutive rules5
Can imagination be unconscious?5
The independence of (in)coherence5
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias5
The rotten core of presentism5
The landscape and the multiverse: What’s the problem?5
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC5
Explaining the apocalypse: the end-Permian mass extinction and the dynamics of explanation in geohistory5
Arithmetic, enumerative induction and size bias5
Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem5
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem5
Non-classical probabilities invariant under symmetries5
Why go for a computation-based approach to cognitive representation5
Notes on a complicated relationship: scientific pluralism, epistemic relativism, and stances5
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics5
A challenge to the second law of thermodynamics from cognitive science and vice versa4
Bodies and minds, heaps and syllables4
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state4
A new solution to the safety dilemma4
Natural kinds of mental disorder4
Dynamic epistemic logics for abstract argumentation4
Imaginative immersion, regulation, and doxastic mediation4
Can hinge epistemology close the door on epistemic relativism?4
I could do that in my sleep: skilled performance in dreams4
Pathways of influence: understanding the impact of philosophy of science in scientific domains4
Intuitions, theory choice and the ameliorative character of logical theories4
Ethical Mooreanism4
Quantum metametaphysics4
Asymmetry cannot solve the circularity/regress problem of property structuralism4
KNOWING HOW as a philosophical hybrid4
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought4
Credible Futures4
How beliefs are like colors4
Counterpossibles, story prefix and trivialism4
Missing the point in noncommutative geometry4
Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics4
How autism shows that symptoms, like psychiatric diagnoses, are 'constructed': methodological and epistemic consequences4
Weighing the costs: the epistemic dilemma of no-platforming4
Prototypes, poles, and tessellations: towards a topological theory of conceptual spaces4
Same-tracking real kinds in the social sciences4
The conceptual nature of imaginative content4
Political imagination and its limits4
Collective intellectual humility and arrogance4
What eliminative materialism isn’t4
Knowledge and reasoning4
In defence of explanatory realism4
Strong knowledge, weak belief?4
How (not) to construct worlds with responsibility4
When is an ensemble like a sample? “Model-based” inferences in climate modeling4
Against telic monism in logic4
Invariance or equivalence: a tale of two principles4
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance4
Unity of the intellectual virtues4
Generics as instructions4
Blame as performance4
Knowledge, behaviour, and policy: questioning the epistemic presuppositions of applying behavioural science in public policymaking4
Comparing the structures of mathematical objects4
What epistemologists of testimony should learn from philosophers of science4
No facts without perspectives4
What is so special about episodic memory: lessons from the system-experience distinction4
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing4
Trusting scientific experts in an online world4
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination4
Is epistemic anxiety an intellectual virtue?4
The key to the knowledge norm of action is ambiguity4
Anti-essentialism, modal relativity, and alternative material-origin counterfactuals4
What is it like to be a chimpanzee?4
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism3
Moral encroachment and the epistemic impermissibility of (some) microaggressions3
The knowledge norm of apt practical reasoning3
Emergence within social systems3
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation3
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?3
Normalisation and subformula property for a system of intuitionistic logic with general introduction and elimination rules3
Metasemantics and boydian synthetic moral naturalism3
Against epistemic absolutism3
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