OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mind & Language is 1. 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.)

Article	Citations
New directions in predictive processing	98
Extended active inference: Constructing predictive cognition beyond skulls	41
Socially adaptive belief	38
Polysemy: Pragmatics and sense conventions	34
Polysemy and thought: Toward a generative theory of concepts	26
Is boredom one or many? A functional solution to the problem of heterogeneity	21
A tribal mind: Beliefs that signal group identity or commitment	20
Communication and representation understood as sender–receiver coordination	19
Insightful artificial intelligence	15
“I didn't mean to suggest anything like that!”: Deniability and context reconstruction	14
Pragmatics and epistemic vigilance: A developmental perspective	13
Non‐human consciousness and the specificity problem: A modest theoretical proposal	13
The signaling function of sharing fake stories	12
Accounting for the preference for literal meanings in autism spectrum conditions	11
Signalling, commitment, and strategic absurdities	11
Semantic polysemy and psycholinguistics	10
Extended mind and artifactual autobiographical memory	10
How (not) to underestimate unconscious perception	10
How to ascribe beliefs to animals	9
Feeling the right way: Normative influences on people's use of emotion concepts	9
Can the mind wander intentionally?	9
Aphantasia: In search of a theory	9
Imitation and culture: What gives?	9
Semantics without semantic content	8
Probabilistic representations in perception: Are there any, and what would they be?	7

Decomposing relevance in conditionals	6
Creating a large language model of a philosopher	6
Interpersonal trust in children's testimonial learning	6
Much at stake in knowledge	6
The notorious neurophilosophy of pain: A family resemblance approach to idiosyncrasy and generalizability	6
(Implicit) Knowledge, reasons, and semantic understanding	6
Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science	6
A pluralistic theory of wordhood	6
The polysemy view of pain	6
Anorexia nervosa: Illusion in the sense of agency	6
Beyond the icon: Core cognition and the bounds of perception	6
Pain, placebo, and cognitive penetration	6
Where meanings arise and how: Building on Shannon's foundations	5
Metalinguistic effects	5
How can perceptual experiences explain uncertainty?	5
Beyond black dots and nutritious things: A solution to the indeterminacy problem	5
The explanatory project of Gricean pragmatics	5
Cumulative culture and complex cultural traditions	5
Discordant knowing: A puzzle about insight in obsessive–compulsive disorder	4
Coming from a world without objects	4
Normative inferentialism on linguistic understanding	4
Perceiving commitments: When we both know that you are counting on me	4
Moving beyond content‐specific computation in artificial neural networks	4
Language without information exchange	4
Weak neo‐Whorfianism and the philosophy of time	4
Is the phenomenological overflow argument really supported by subjective reports?	4
Self‐consciousness in autism: A third‐person perspective on the self	4
The theory theory of metalinguistic disputes	4
Entitativity and implicit measures of social cognition	4
How thirst compels: An aggregation model of sensory motivation	4
A new empirical challenge for local theories of consciousness	4
Enhancing thoughts: Culture, technology, and the evolution of human cognitive uniqueness	4
First saying, then believing: The pragmatic roots of folk psychology	4
Rules of use	3
The rationality of eating disorders	3
Assertion, denial, and the evolution of Boolean operators	3
Representation in Cognitive Science: Replies	3
What are linguistic representations?	3
Spatial representations in sensory modalities	3
Objectivity, perceptual constancy, and teleology in young children	3
The rational role of the perceptual sense of reality	3
Spatial content of painful sensations	3
Visual indeterminacy and the puzzle of the speckled hen	3
The innocuousness of folieism and the need of intentionality where transduction fails: Replies to Adger and to Stainton & Viger	3
Do we see facts?	3
Is pain modular?	3
Essentializing inferences	3
Against the mind package view of minds: Comments on Carrie Figdor's Pieces of mind	3
Notions of arbitrariness	3
Underwhelming force: Evaluating the neuropsychological evidence for higher‐order theories of consciousness	3

Content is pragmatic: Comments on Nicholas Shea's Representation in cognitive science	3
Evaluative theories in psychology and philosophy of emotion	3
What do plants and bacteria want? Commentary on Carrie Figdor's Pieces of mind	3
Integration, lateralization, and animal experience	3
A metacognitive account of phenomenal force	3
Backtracking through interventions: An exogenous intervention model for counterfactual semantics	2
Explaining early generics: A linguistic model	2
Going on as one ought: Kripke and Wittgenstein on the normativity of meaning	2
Moral rationalism on the brain	2
Should the teleosemanticist be afraid of semantic indeterminacy?	2
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self‐narratives	2
Experiential holism in time	2
Speaker's reference, semantic reference, sneaky reference	2
Is meaning cognized?	2
Assertoric content, responsibility, and metasemantics	2
Does the mind care about whether a word is abstract or concrete? Why concreteness is probably not a natural kind	2
Truth is dead; long live the truth. Commentary on Conjoining Meanings by Paul Pietroski	2
Experiments on causal exclusion	2
On the roles of false belief and recalcitrant fear in anorexia nervosa	2
Missing persons: Young children's talk about absent members of their social network	2
Pretend play: More imitative than imaginative	2
Troubles with Rey's linguistic Eliminativism	2
Conjoining meanings without losing our heads	2
Susanna Schellenberg on perception	2
Tracking representationalism and olfaction	2
Teleology beyond explanation	2
What is diffuse attention?	1
Why I am not a literalist	1
Solipsistic sentience	1
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Reinforcement learning and artificial agency	1
A Bayesian interpretation of cross‐linguistic ambiguity tests	1
Beyond adverbialism: A new non‐relational theory of perceptual experience	1
Self‐signs and intensional contexts	1
Whither extensions?	1
Content and phenomenology in The unity of perception	1
Perceiving agency	1
Focus on slurs	1
The perspective‐sensitivity of presuppositions	1
Against neuroclassicism: On the perils of armchair neuroscience	1
Experiences of linguistic understanding as epistemic feelings	1
Recognition and the perception–cognition divide	1
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Design and syntax in pictures	1
Weather predicates, binding, and radical contextualism	1
Metaphysics of the Bayesian mind	1
The empirical status of semantic perceptualism	1
Disgust and the logic of contamination: Biology, culture, and the evolution of norm (over)compliance	1
Further thoughts on hierarchy and inequality	1
Capacitism and the transparency of evidence	1
Normative folk psychology and decision theory	1
Are sensory experiences contingently representational? A critical notice of David Papineau's The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience	1
“Philosophers care about the truth”: Descriptive/normative generics	1
Conceptual engineering, predictive processing, and a new implementation problem	1
Are psychopaths moral‐psychologically impaired? Reassessing emotion‐theoretical explanations	1
A (contingent) content–parthood analysis of indirect speech reports	1
Representing shape in sight and touch	1
How we talk about smells	1
What is it like to be colour‐blind? A case study in experimental philosophy of experience	1
How to think about higher‐level perceptual contents	1
How we got stuck: The origins of hierarchy and inequality	1
The semantics of fiction	1
Stone tools, predictive processing and the evolution of language	1
Conditionals: Truth, safety, and success	1
Language and children's understanding of knowledge: Epistemic talk in early childhood	1
Teleosemantics and the frogs	1
Vividness and content	1