Synthese

Papers
(The TQCC of Synthese is 5. 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
Barad, Bohr, and quantum mechanics25
Video on demand: what deepfakes do and how they harm25
Your word against mine: the power of uptake22
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies22
Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors21
Making imagination even more embodied: imagination, constraint and epistemic relevance21
Illocutionary pluralism20
A critical analysis of Markovian monism20
Reward tampering problems and solutions in reinforcement learning: a causal influence diagram perspective20
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics17
Mathematics, ethics and purism: an application of MacIntyre’s virtue theory17
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
Bias in science: natural and social16
How to have a metalinguistic dispute15
Imagining the past reliably and unreliably: towards a virtue theory of memory15
Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs15
Embodied skillful performance: where the action is15
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
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
Representational similarity analysis in neuroimaging: proxy vehicles and provisional representations13
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
Understanding scientific progress: the noetic account12
Defective food concepts12
Conceptual domination12
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
What is the myth of the given?11
An externalist teleology11
Putting representations to use11
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 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
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
The computational philosophy: simulation as a core philosophical method9
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology9
The skill of self-control9
Logic and science: science and logic8
Nominalist dispositional essentialism8
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies8
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up8
Mathematizing as a virtuous practice: different narratives and their consequences for mathematics education and society8
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism8
Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction8
Enactive planning in rock climbing: recalibration, visualization and nested affordances8
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach8
Long-arm functional individuation of computation8
What have we learned about the engram?8
Bootstrapping of integer concepts: the stronger deviant-interpretation challenge (and how to solve it)8
Explaining universality: infinite limit systems in the renormalization group method8
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
Fighting about frequency5
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal5
The indeterminate present and the open future5
Can imagination be unconscious?5
Are we free to imagine what we choose?5
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias5
Logical abductivism and non-deductive inference5
The landscape and the multiverse: What’s the problem?5
Explaining the apocalypse: the end-Permian mass extinction and the dynamics of explanation in geohistory5
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
Models, structures, and the explanatory role of mathematics in empirical science5
A novel approach to equality5
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory5
The epistemic value of independent lies: false analogies and equivocations5
Anti-intellectualism, instructive representations, and the intentional action argument5
Perspectives on de se immunity5
Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles5
Is absence of evidence of pain ever evidence of absence?5
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences5
Justifying method choice: a heuristic-instrumentalist account of scientific methodology5
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
The independence of (in)coherence5
The rotten core of presentism5
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC5
What are mathematical diagrams?5
Arithmetic, enumerative induction and size bias5
Logic as a methodological discipline5
Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem5
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency5
Between pebbles and organisms: weaving autonomy into the Markov blanket5
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem5
Vacillating time: a metaphysics for time travel and Geachianism5
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
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