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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: a consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing106
Technologically scaffolded atypical cognition: the case of YouTube’s recommender system37
Algorithmic bias: on the implicit biases of social technology36
Virtue signalling is virtuous33
Pain and the field of affordances: an enactive approach to acute and chronic pain32
Self-supervision, normativity and the free energy principle28
Meaningful affordances26
The explanation game: a formal framework for interpretable machine learning26
The no-free-lunch theorems of supervised learning23
Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited23
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior23
Grounding theories of powers23
Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency22
Retweeting: its linguistic and epistemic value22
Lying, speech acts, and commitment22
Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering21
Resonance and radical embodiment20
Video on demand: what deepfakes do and how they harm20
The physics of representation20
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning19
Sample representation in the social sciences17
Reward tampering problems and solutions in reinforcement learning: a causal influence diagram perspective17
Making imagination even more embodied: imagination, constraint and epistemic relevance17
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies17
An analysis of the disagreement about added value by regional climate models16
The dynamical renaissance in neuroscience16
Your word against mine: the power of uptake16
A twofold tale of one mind: revisiting REC’s multi-storey story16
A critical analysis of Markovian monism16
Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors15
Affective experience in the predictive mind: a review and new integrative account15
Objectivity, trust and social responsibility14
Illocutionary pluralism14
Identifying logical evidence14
Debunking conspiracy theories14
Relevance and risk: How the relevant alternatives framework models the epistemology of risk14
Prospecting performance: rehearsal and the nature of imagination14
How to count biological minds: symbiosis, the free energy principle, and reciprocal multiscale integration13
How to have a metalinguistic dispute13
Embodied skillful performance: where the action is13
The package deal account of laws and properties (PDA)13
Deflating the functional turn in conceptual engineering13
Understanding others by doing things together: an enactive account13
Hedging and the ignorance norm on inquiry13
Measuring evidence: a probabilistic approach to an extension of Belnap–Dunn logic13
Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs13
Exploring people’s beliefs about the experience of time13
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics13
Understanding climate change with statistical downscaling and machine learning12
Why robots can’t haka: skilled performance and embodied knowledge in the Māori haka12
Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation12
Representational similarity analysis in neuroimaging: proxy vehicles and provisional representations12
Spacetime functionalism from a realist perspective12
Eight journals over eight decades: a computational topic-modeling approach to contemporary philosophy of science12
The cultural evolution of mind-modelling11
Modelling ourselves: what the free energy principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation11
Imagining the past reliably and unreliably: towards a virtue theory of memory11
Demarcating cognition: the cognitive life sciences11
Defective food concepts11
The origins of mindreading: how interpretive socio-cognitive practices get off the ground11
Conjunctive paraconsistency11
Bias in science: natural and social11
Opacity thought through: on the intransparency of computer simulations11
Formal models of source reliability10
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded: habits, ecological psychology, and skilled performance10
Explanatory dispositionalism10
Four ways of (mis-)conceiving embodiment in tool use10
Sophistry about symmetries?10
Belief, credence, and moral encroachment10
Abductive reasoning in cognitive neuroscience: weak and strong reverse inference10
Multi-field and Bohm’s theory10
Distinguishing topological and causal explanation10
The variety of evidence thesis and its independence of degrees of independence10
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection10
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology10
Evolution by means of natural selection without reproduction: revamping Lewontin’s account10
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics10
An externalist teleology10
Logical ignorance and logical learning9
Structural representations do not meet the job description challenge9
Conceptual domination9
A Battle in the Statistics Wars: a simulation-based comparison of Bayesian, Frequentist and Williamsonian methodologies9
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations9
Anti-intellectualist motor knowledge9
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization9
Mathematics, ethics and purism: an application of MacIntyre’s virtue theory9
Individuating the senses of ‘smell’: orthonasal versus retronasal olfaction9
It just feels right: an account of expert intuition9
The indeterminacy of computation9
Future bias in action: does the past matter more when you can affect it?9
Neuroscience and teleosemantics9
Skill and strategic control9
How can necessary facts call for explanation?9
Structural uncertainty through the lens of model building9
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors9
Understanding scientific progress: the noetic account8
Effective theories and infinite idealizations: a challenge for scientific realism8
Reviving frequentism8
What is the myth of the given?8
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts8
The clinical significance of anomalous experience in the explanation of monothematic delusions8
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity8
Endogenous epistemic factionalization8
Wave-functionalism8
Explanations in cognitive science: unification versus pluralism8
Two dogmas of dynamicism8
Steel and bone: mesoscale modeling and middle-out strategies in physics and biology8
Trusting in order to inspire trustworthiness8
Enactive planning in rock climbing: recalibration, visualization and nested affordances8
Explaining universality: infinite limit systems in the renormalization group method8
The problem of creation and abstract artifacts8
Putting representations to use8
Argumentative landscapes: the function of models in social epistemology8
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium7
Culturally embedded schemata for false belief reasoning7
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up7
Medicine’s metaphysical morass: how confusion about dualism threatens public health7
When scale is surplus7
Humanistic interpretation and machine learning7
A case of shared consciousness7
Behavioural modernity, investigative disintegration & Rubicon expectation7
The computational philosophy: simulation as a core philosophical method7
Nominalist dispositional essentialism7
Confirmation bias without rhyme or reason7
A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading7
Statistical resentment, or: what’s wrong with acting, blaming, and believing on the basis of statistics alone7
Visual attention in pictorial perception7
The visibility of philosophy of science in the sciences, 1980–20187
Radicalizing numerical cognition7
Rejecting epiphobia7
Objective data sets in qualitative research7
Inappropriate stereotypical inferences? An adversarial collaboration in experimental ordinary language philosophy7
Joint attention and perceptual experience7
The brittleness of expertise and why it matters7
Death is common, so is understanding it: the concept of death in other species7
Abstract relations: bibliography and the infra-structures of modern mathematics7
Feynman diagrams7
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology7
On the importance of correctly locating content: why and how REC can afford affordance perception7
Calculus and counterpossibles in science7
Bootstrapping of integer concepts: the stronger deviant-interpretation challenge (and how to solve it)7
Conceptual analysis without concepts7
Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution7
Virtue theory of mathematical practices: an introduction7
Affective shifts: mood, emotion and well-being7
The physicality of representation7
Virtues for agents in directed social networks7
Yet again, quantum indeterminacy is not worldly indecision6
A deference model of epistemic authority6
Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction6
How signaling conventions are established6
The process of linguistic understanding6
Mathematizing as a virtuous practice: different narratives and their consequences for mathematics education and society6
Knox’s inertial spacetime functionalism (and a better alternative)6
Practical concepts and productive reasoning6
Diachronic causal constitutive relations6
Extended cognition, assistive technology and education6
Do we really need a knowledge-based decision theory?6
Integrated information theory of consciousness is a functionalist emergentism6
Groups as pluralities6
Definitions of life as epistemic tools that reflect and foster the advance of biological knowledge6
Logic and science: science and logic6
Contingent grounding6
Theory choice, non-epistemic values, and machine learning6
How to endorse conciliationism6
Is mindreading a gadget?6
Foundations of a we-perspective6
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception6
A modal theory of discrimination6
Practical reasoning and degrees of outright belief6
Intellectual humility in mathematics6
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations6
Prediction versus understanding in computationally enhanced neuroscience6
The non-ideal theory of the Aharonov–Bohm effect6
Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement6
Agential thinking6
Delusional evidence-responsiveness6
Speech acts in mathematics6
Social constructivism in mathematics? The promise and shortcomings of Julian Cole’s institutional account6
Enculturating folk psychologists6
Fodor’s guide to the Humean mind6
Artifacts and mind-dependence6
Beyond the Platonic Brain: facing the challenge of individual differences in function-structure mapping6
A rational route to transformative decisions6
The directionality of topological explanations6
In defence of epistemic vices6
Long-arm functional individuation of computation6
Autopoietic enactivism: action and representation re-examined under Peirce’s light6
Social epistemological conception of delusion6
Changing use of formal methods in philosophy: late 2000s vs. late 2010s6
Disagreement lost6
Logic in analytic philosophy: a quantitative analysis5
The indeterminate present and the open future5
There is no reason to replace the Razor with the Laser5
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition5
The mirror of physics: on how the Price equation can unify evolutionary biology5
Degrees of freedom5
Causally powerful processes5
Dispositionality, categoricity, and where to find them5
Fitting anxiety and prudent anxiety5
The fittingness of emotions5
Polycratic hierarchies and networks: what simulation-modeling at the LHC can teach us about the epistemology of simulation5
What have we learned about the engram?5
A working hypothesis for the logic of radical ignorance5
The problem of perceptual invariance5
The skill of self-control5
A novel approach to equality5
Introduction: first principles in science—their status and justification5
Preteriception: memory as past-perception5
Audience role in mathematical proof development5
Perceptual justification in the Bayesian brain: a foundherentist account5
Justifying method choice: a heuristic-instrumentalist account of scientific methodology5
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism5
Vacillating time: a metaphysics for time travel and Geachianism5
The social fabric of understanding: equilibrium, authority, and epistemic empathy5
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach5
An argument for egalitarian confirmation bias and against political diversity in academia5
Remembering events and representing time5
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem5
Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration5
Invasive species and natural function in ecology5
Scientific self-correction: the Bayesian way5
Anti-exceptionalism, truth and the BA-plan5
Awareness growth and dispositional attitudes5
Hybrid collective intentionality5
Causation, electronic configurations and the periodic table5
Can happiness measures be calibrated?5
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering5
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC5
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics5
The reasonable doubt standard as inference to the best explanation5
The strength of de Finetti’s coherence theorem5
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations5
Disagreement in science: introduction to the special issue5
Bodies in skilled performance: how dancers reflect through the living body5
Lying, more or less: a computer simulation study of graded lies and trust dynamics5
Criteria for naturalness in conceptual spaces5
Expressivity results for deontic logics of collective agency5
Vividness as a natural kind5
In defence of constitutive rules5
Non-classical probabilities invariant under symmetries5
Models, structures, and the explanatory role of mathematics in empirical science5
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies5
Predicates of personal taste: empirical data5
Broad Medical Uncertainty and the ethical obligation for openness5
There is nothing to identity5
Communicating in contextual ignorance5
Pragmatic markers: the missing link between language and Theory of Mind5
Particles, fields, and the measurement of electron spin5
The rotten core of presentism5
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