OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Topoi-An International Review of Philosophy 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Beyond Right Choices: The Art of Wise Decision Making	70
Stop Doubting with Descartes	48
Caring About Our Own Epistemic Capacities qua Responsible Citizens	34
Handmade Therapy: The Hedonic Impacts of Engaging in Pottery Making	33
The Name-Notion Network: On How to Conciliate Two Approaches to Naming and Reference-Fixing	26
Nonexistent Objects and Their Semantic and Ontological Dependence on Referential Acts	21
Intrinsic Responsibility for Rule-Following	21
Engineering Disputed Concepts and the Meeting of Minds	20
A Republican Approach to Jerkish Speech on Online Platforms	19
What Absurdity Is Not in Natural Deduction: Structural Approach and the Empty Set	19
On the Ambiguity of Images and Particularity of Imaginings	16
Radical Embodied Cognition as Non-ideal Theory	15
Adversarial Argument, Belief Change, and Vulnerability	15
From Semantic Deference to Semantic Externalism to Metasemantic Disagreement	14
Faces and situational Agency	13
Enacting Ought: Ethics, Anti-Racism, and Interactional Possibilities	12
Exemplary Arguers (for Example, in Law)	11
Shared Attention as a Revelatory Practice	10
Scaffolded Agents, for Better or Worse: Assessing the Formative Aspect of Scaffolding	10
Psychology, Equality, and the Forgetting of Motivations	9
Defining Communication and Language from Within a Pluralistic Evolutionary Worldview	9
The Practical Unity of Practical Wisdom	9
Critical Realism and Technocracy – RW Sellars’ Radical Philosophy in its Context	9
Confused Entailment	8
Agamemnon at Aulis: On the Right and Wrong Sorts of Imaginative Identification	8

Should we Trust Our Feeds? Social Media, Misinformation, and the Epistemology of Testimony	8
Mathematical Practice, Fictionalism and Social Ontology	8
Language, Thought, and the History of Science	8
Indeterminate Meaning: A Temporally Extended Radical Conventionalism of Rule-Following	7
Arguably Better: Eudaimonist Virtues of Argumentation	7
Rethinking Virtue in Legal Decision-Making: A Perspective from Virtue Argumentation Theory	7
Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and the Question of God	7
A Different Elite: For a Hegemonic Majority to Break the Iron Law of Oligarchy	6
Phronesis and Empathy: Allies or Opponents?	6
How Normativity Shaped Human Communication: A Hearer-Oriented Approach	6
Introduction: What’s so Special About Faces? Visages at the Crossroad Between Philosophy, Semiotics and Cognition	6
The Ethical Paradox of Automation: AI Moral Status as a Challenge to the End of Human Work	6
The Problem of Reindividuation and Money-Pump Arguments: Analysis of Mamou’s Solution	6
Hegel and Wittgenstein on Difficulties of Beginning at the Beginning	6
On the Permissibility of Distorting a Rival View: Important Exceptions to the Principle of Charity	6
Varieties of Metalinguistic Negotiation	6
Phronesis and Emotion: The Skill Model of Wisdom Developed	6
Digital Slot Machines: Social Media Platforms as Attentional Scaffolds	6
Arguments and Speech Acts Reconsidered	6
The Paradoxical Nature of Older Adult Embodiment	6
Critical Pragmatics: Nine Misconceptions	6
Loneliness as a Closure of the Affordance Space: The Case of COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Exploring Reading as a Social Practice with Gibson and Goodwin	5
A Critical Pragmatic Account of Prosaic and Poetic Metaphors	5
On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies	5
The Tacitly Situated Self: From Narration to Sedimentation and Projection	5
Of Marriage and Mathematics: Inferentialism and Social Ontology	5
Levinas’ Otherness: An Ethical Dimension for Enactive Sociality	5
A Constructivist Account of Political Normativity	5
Ethics of Extinction: Humean Sentimentalism and the Value of the Human Species	4
Joint Attention: The PAIR Account	4
One with Nature, One with Each Other? A Niche Construction Framework Linking Rituals, Social Media and Nature Connectedness	4
The Transformative Power of Virtual Reality: Redefining Interactions in Virtual Platforms, Education, Healthcare, and Workplaces	4
Emotional Environments: Selective Permeability, Political Affordances and Normative Settings	4
Introduction: Moral Exemplarism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives	4
Reflexive Charity and the Peirce Problem as a Meta-Argumentative Pathology	4
Introduction: The Formation of the Moral Point of View—The Legacy of Bernard Williams Twenty Years after His Passing	4
Beyond Reasonableness: Argumentative Virtues in Pragma-Dialectics	4
What Can Discourse Do?	4
Introduction: Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm	4
Correction: Introduction: The Formation of the Moral Point of View—The Legacy of Bernard Williams Twenty Years after His Passing	4
The Making of Pragma-Dialectics: A Synopsis	4
Abhorrent Slurs and Laudable Pejoratives: An Estonian Case Study of the Space Between	4
Narrative Railroading	4
Assistive Technology as Affective Scaffolding	4
Decolonizing AI Ethics: Relational Autonomy as a Means to Counter AI Harms	4
Against Cooperation: Or Why Telic/Functional Explanations Do Not Account for the Evolution of Rule-Following	4
How Much of Your Self Do You Need to Imagine Being Someone Else?	3
Some Potential Problems with Implicit Bias Interventions Qua Indirect Prejudice Interventions	3
Hermeneutical Injustice Through Defective Concept Possession	3

Enactivism and the Paradox of Moral Perception	3
Bridging the Fact/Value Divide in Wisdom Research: The Development of Expertise in Wise Decision-Making	3
Characterization Frames Constructing Endoxa in Activists’ Discourse About the Public Controversy Surrounding Fashion Sustainability	3
Therapeutic Chatbots as Cognitive-Affective Artifacts	3
The Enigma of Normative Attitudes	3
Correction to: Enacting Ought: Ethics, Anti-Racism, and Interactional Possibilities	3
Why Practical Wisdom Cannot be Eliminated	3
Untimely Reviews	3
Are Works of Art Affective Artifacts? If Not, What Sort of Artifacts Are They?	3
Material Dependence and Kant’s Refutation of Idealism	3
Russell and American Realism	3
Three Rich-Lexicon Theories of Slurs: A Comparison	3
Introduction: Direct Realism – Historical and Systematic Perspectives	3
Popular Government Without the Will of the People	3
Must Skepticism Remain Refuted? Inheriting Skepticism with Cavell and Levinas	3
Humean Sentimentalism, Sentimentalist Antinatalism, and the Metaphysics of Procreation	3
Solving the Authority Problem: Why We Won’t Debate You, Bro	3
Introduction: Affectivity and Technology - Philosophical Explorations	3
Scaffolding Bad Moral Agents	3
Thick Narratives and the Value of Minor Details	3
The Topoi they are A-Changin’	3
Sympathy, Interpersonal Awareness and Acknowledgment	3
Political Normativity… All-Things-Considered	3
A Positively Relaxed Take on Naturalism: Reasons to be Relaxed but not too Liberal	2
Can There be Thought Without Words?—Donald Davidson on Language and Animal Minds	2
The Experience of Affordances in an Intersubjective World	2
Deliberative Democracy and Pragma-Dialectics Related	2
Does Using Technological Devices Motivate Older Adults to Engage in Physical Activities? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	2
Aquinas on the Intentionality of Memory	2
But is it Charity?	2
Does Empathy Reduce Implicit Bias? A Critical Review	2
The Truth in Social Media	2
What if Vulcan Does not Exist? A Discussion of Cococo‑Reference Proposal and Mythical Name	2
A Late Antique Rabbinic Discourse on the Linguistic (In-)determinacy of the Law	2
What Matters to Others: A High-Threshold Account of Joint Attention	2
Flourishing Goals, Metacognitive Skills, and the Virtue of Wisdom	2
Introduction: A Critical Eye on Critical Pragmatics	2
Regulated Empathy and Future Generations	2
Assertion, Lying and the Norm of Truth	2
Being at One: a Philosophical Anthropology of Solitude	2
What is conceptual hypocrisy? Is it problematic?	2
Beyond Corporate Social Media Platforms: The Epistemic Promises and Perils of Alternative Social Media	2
Mindshaping, Enactivism, and Ideological Oppression	2
Celebrity Politics and Democratic Elitism	2
Argument Interpretation and the Implicit Side of Enthymemes, Beyond and Before the Charity Principle	2
Introduction: Truthmaker Semantics: What, What For, and How?	2
The Inferential Meaning of Controversial Terms: The Case of “Terrorism”	2
The Myth of Interiority (Le Psychologue Malgré Lui)	2
Rejection as a Ground of Our Obedience to the Rules of Logic	2
Real Feeling and Fictional Time in Human-AI Interactions	2
Anti-Representationalism, Naturalism, and Placement Metaphysics	2
Externalism and the Myth of the Given	2
Introduction: Language and Worldviews	2
Correction: C.S. Peirce on Mathematical Practice: Objectivity and the Community of Inquirers	2
On Artificial Intelligence and Manipulation	2
Scaffolding and Individuality in Early Childhood Development	2
Charity Versus Knowledge Maximization	2
What Can Epistemic Normativity Tell us About Politics? Ideology, Power, and the Epistemology of Radical Realism	2
Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach	2
Valuing the “Afterlife”	2
Disabling Scaffolds: The Lived Embodiment of Disability in an Oppressive Sociomaterial Environment	2
Elected Extremists, Political Communication and the Limits of Containment	2
Correction: Introduction: Language and Worldviews	2
Attending Together in Digital Environments	2