Synthese

Papers
(The TQCC of Synthese is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
When to adjust alpha during multiple testing: a consideration of disjunction, conjunction, and individual testing110
Technologically scaffolded atypical cognition: the case of YouTube’s recommender system38
Algorithmic bias: on the implicit biases of social technology36
Virtue signalling is virtuous34
Pain and the field of affordances: an enactive approach to acute and chronic pain33
The explanation game: a formal framework for interpretable machine learning26
Meaningful affordances26
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning25
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior24
Lying, speech acts, and commitment24
The no-free-lunch theorems of supervised learning24
Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited23
Grounding theories of powers23
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics22
Engineering what? On concepts in conceptual engineering22
Retweeting: its linguistic and epistemic value22
Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency22
Video on demand: what deepfakes do and how they harm20
The physics of representation20
Reward tampering problems and solutions in reinforcement learning: a causal influence diagram perspective18
The dynamical renaissance in neuroscience18
Making imagination even more embodied: imagination, constraint and epistemic relevance17
A critical analysis of Markovian monism17
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies17
Affective experience in the predictive mind: a review and new integrative account16
An analysis of the disagreement about added value by regional climate models16
Your word against mine: the power of uptake16
A twofold tale of one mind: revisiting REC’s multi-storey story16
Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors15
Illocutionary pluralism15
Relevance and risk: How the relevant alternatives framework models the epistemology of risk14
Debunking conspiracy theories14
Objectivity, trust and social responsibility14
Deflating the functional turn in conceptual engineering14
Prospecting performance: rehearsal and the nature of imagination14
The package deal account of laws and properties (PDA)13
Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs13
Opacity thought through: on the intransparency of computer simulations13
Embodied skillful performance: where the action is13
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics13
How to count biological minds: symbiosis, the free energy principle, and reciprocal multiscale integration13
Understanding others by doing things together: an enactive account13
Hedging and the ignorance norm on inquiry13
How to have a metalinguistic dispute13
Exploring people’s beliefs about the experience of time13
Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation12
Why robots can’t haka: skilled performance and embodied knowledge in the Māori haka12
Conjunctive paraconsistency12
Understanding climate change with statistical downscaling and machine learning12
Imagining the past reliably and unreliably: towards a virtue theory of memory12
Eight journals over eight decades: a computational topic-modeling approach to contemporary philosophy of science12
Spacetime functionalism from a realist perspective12
The cultural evolution of mind-modelling12
Representational similarity analysis in neuroimaging: proxy vehicles and provisional representations12
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection11
Bias in science: natural and social11
Individuating the senses of ‘smell’: orthonasal versus retronasal olfaction11
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded: habits, ecological psychology, and skilled performance11
Defective food concepts11
Demarcating cognition: the cognitive life sciences11
Modelling ourselves: what the free energy principle reveals about our implicit notions of representation11
Four ways of (mis-)conceiving embodiment in tool use11
Sophistry about symmetries?11
Conceptual domination10
An externalist teleology10
When scale is surplus10
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology10
Explanatory dispositionalism10
Skill and strategic control10
It just feels right: an account of expert intuition10
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
Logical ignorance and logical learning10
Evolution by means of natural selection without reproduction: revamping Lewontin’s account10
Fidelity and the grain problem in cultural evolution9
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization9
Structural uncertainty through the lens of model building9
Mathematics, ethics and purism: an application of MacIntyre’s virtue theory9
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors9
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations9
Future bias in action: does the past matter more when you can affect it?9
Neuroscience and teleosemantics9
Trusting in order to inspire trustworthiness9
How can necessary facts call for explanation?9
Anti-intellectualist motor knowledge9
Behavioural modernity, investigative disintegration & Rubicon expectation9
Structural representations do not meet the job description challenge9
The indeterminacy of computation9
A Battle in the Statistics Wars: a simulation-based comparison of Bayesian, Frequentist and Williamsonian methodologies9
Prediction versus understanding in computationally enhanced neuroscience8
Endogenous epistemic factionalization8
Reviving frequentism8
Virtue theory of mathematical practices: an introduction8
Explanations in cognitive science: unification versus pluralism8
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts8
Argumentative landscapes: the function of models in social epistemology8
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity8
Humanistic interpretation and machine learning8
Explaining universality: infinite limit systems in the renormalization group method8
Wave-functionalism8
The problem of creation and abstract artifacts8
Confirmation bias without rhyme or reason8
Putting representations to use8
The clinical significance of anomalous experience in the explanation of monothematic delusions8
Understanding scientific progress: the noetic account8
A case of shared consciousness8
Enactive planning in rock climbing: recalibration, visualization and nested affordances8
Effective theories and infinite idealizations: a challenge for scientific realism8
What is the myth of the given?8
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology8
Two dogmas of dynamicism8
Steel and bone: mesoscale modeling and middle-out strategies in physics and biology8
The visibility of philosophy of science in the sciences, 1980–20187
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up7
Inappropriate stereotypical inferences? An adversarial collaboration in experimental ordinary language philosophy7
Affective shifts: mood, emotion and well-being7
Abstract relations: bibliography and the infra-structures of modern mathematics7
A computational model of the cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading7
Social epistemological conception of delusion7
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium7
Visual attention in pictorial perception7
Medicine’s metaphysical morass: how confusion about dualism threatens public health7
Calculus and counterpossibles in science7
Bootstrapping of integer concepts: the stronger deviant-interpretation challenge (and how to solve it)7
The computational philosophy: simulation as a core philosophical method7
Nominalist dispositional essentialism7
The physicality of representation7
Statistical resentment, or: what’s wrong with acting, blaming, and believing on the basis of statistics alone7
In defence of epistemic vices7
Feynman diagrams7
Long-arm functional individuation of computation7
How to endorse conciliationism7
Rejecting epiphobia7
Conceptual analysis without concepts7
The brittleness of expertise and why it matters7
Death is common, so is understanding it: the concept of death in other species7
Virtues for agents in directed social networks7
Intellectual humility in mathematics7
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations7
Culturally embedded schemata for false belief reasoning7
Social constructivism in mathematics? The promise and shortcomings of Julian Cole’s institutional account7
Radicalizing numerical cognition7
Entanglement as the world-making relation: distance from entanglement6
Logic and science: science and logic6
Enculturating folk psychologists6
Foundations of a we-perspective6
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception6
A modal theory of discrimination6
The directionality of topological explanations6
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism6
Definitions of life as epistemic tools that reflect and foster the advance of biological knowledge6
The skill of self-control6
Contingent grounding6
Autopoietic enactivism: action and representation re-examined under Peirce’s light6
Predicates of personal taste: empirical data6
Changing use of formal methods in philosophy: late 2000s vs. late 2010s6
Yet again, quantum indeterminacy is not worldly indecision6
Mathematizing as a virtuous practice: different narratives and their consequences for mathematics education and society6
Delusional evidence-responsiveness6
Artifacts and mind-dependence6
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering6
Practical concepts and productive reasoning6
Beyond the Platonic Brain: facing the challenge of individual differences in function-structure mapping6
Integrated information theory of consciousness is a functionalist emergentism6
Agential thinking6
Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction6
Introduction to Folk Psychology: Pluralistic Approaches6
Fodor’s guide to the Humean mind6
Groups as pluralities6
Speech acts in mathematics6
The mirror of physics: on how the Price equation can unify evolutionary biology6
Theory choice, non-epistemic values, and machine learning6
How signaling conventions are established6
The process of linguistic understanding6
A rational route to transformative decisions6
Practical reasoning and degrees of outright belief6
Extended cognition, assistive technology and education6
The non-ideal theory of the Aharonov–Bohm effect6
Disagreement lost6
A deference model of epistemic authority6
Do we really need a knowledge-based decision theory?6
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models6
A novel approach to equality5
Broad Medical Uncertainty and the ethical obligation for openness5
A roadmap to explanatory pluralism: introduction to the topical collection The Biology of Behaviour5
The rotten core of presentism5
Disagreement in science: introduction to the special issue5
The social fabric of understanding: equilibrium, authority, and epistemic empathy5
The strength of de Finetti’s coherence theorem5
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition5
Propping up the causal theory5
An argument for egalitarian confirmation bias and against political diversity in academia5
First-person representations and responsible agency in AI5
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem5
Causally powerful processes5
The problem of perceptual invariance5
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies5
In defence of constitutive rules5
There is nothing to identity5
Models, structures, and the explanatory role of mathematics in empirical science5
Communicating in contextual ignorance5
Introduction: first principles in science—their status and justification5
Preteriception: memory as past-perception5
Towards a socially constructed and objective concept of mental disorder5
Perceptual justification in the Bayesian brain: a foundherentist account5
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics5
Degrees of freedom5
Logic in analytic philosophy: a quantitative analysis5
Bodies in skilled performance: how dancers reflect through the living body5
Vacillating time: a metaphysics for time travel and Geachianism5
Criteria for naturalness in conceptual spaces5
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach5
Vividness as a natural kind5
Anti-exceptionalism, truth and the BA-plan5
Remembering events and representing time5
What have we learned about the engram?5
Polycratic hierarchies and networks: what simulation-modeling at the LHC can teach us about the epistemology of simulation5
A working hypothesis for the logic of radical ignorance5
Can happiness measures be calibrated?5
Pragmatic markers: the missing link between language and Theory of Mind5
Do fictions explain?5
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC5
Particles, fields, and the measurement of electron spin5
The indeterminate present and the open future5
Justifying method choice: a heuristic-instrumentalist account of scientific methodology5
Non-classical probabilities invariant under symmetries5
There is no reason to replace the Razor with the Laser5
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations5
Presumptuous or pluralistic presumptions of innocence? Methodological diagnosis towards conceptual reinvigoration5
Dispositionality, categoricity, and where to find them5
Lying, more or less: a computer simulation study of graded lies and trust dynamics5
The fittingness of emotions5
Hybrid collective intentionality5
Fitting anxiety and prudent anxiety5
Causation, electronic configurations and the periodic table5
Scientific self-correction: the Bayesian way5
The reasonable doubt standard as inference to the best explanation5
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought4
Notes on a complicated relationship: scientific pluralism, epistemic relativism, and stances4
Corporeal composition4
Strong knowledge, weak belief?4
Conceptualizing causal powers: activity, capacity, essence, necessitation4
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements4
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue4
Intentional mind-wandering as intentional omission: the surrealist method4
Ethical Mooreanism4
When is an ensemble like a sample? “Model-based” inferences in climate modeling4
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