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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Extended active inference: Constructing predictive cognition beyond skulls	48
Polysemy: Pragmatics and sense conventions	39
Polysemy and thought: Toward a generative theory of concepts	34
A tribal mind: Beliefs that signal group identity or commitment	25
Non‐human consciousness and the specificity problem: A modest theoretical proposal	22
“I didn't mean to suggest anything like that!”: Deniability and context reconstruction	19
Insightful artificial intelligence	18
Aphantasia: In search of a theory	18
Creating a large language model of a philosopher	15
The signaling function of sharing fake stories	15
Imitation and culture: What gives?	15
Accounting for the preference for literal meanings in autism spectrum conditions	15
How (not) to underestimate unconscious perception	14
Can the mind wander intentionally?	13
Signalling, commitment, and strategic absurdities	13
Semantic polysemy and psycholinguistics	12
The polysemy view of pain	12
Extended mind and artifactual autobiographical memory	12
Decomposing relevance in conditionals	11
Semantics without semantic content	10
Cumulative culture and complex cultural traditions	10
“All animals are conscious”: Shifting the null hypothesis in consciousness science	9
Normative inferentialism on linguistic understanding	9
The notorious neurophilosophy of pain: A family resemblance approach to idiosyncrasy and generalizability	9
The rationality of eating disorders	9

How can perceptual experiences explain uncertainty?	8
Moving beyond content‐specific computation in artificial neural networks	7
Essentializing inferences	7
How thirst compels: An aggregation model of sensory motivation	7
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self‐narratives	6
Interpersonal trust in children's testimonial learning	6
Do we see facts?	6
Integration, lateralization, and animal experience	6
Anorexia nervosa: Illusion in the sense of agency	6
A new empirical challenge for local theories of consciousness	6
Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science	6
Enhancing thoughts: Culture, technology, and the evolution of human cognitive uniqueness	5
Metalinguistic effects	5
Perceiving commitments: When we both know that you are counting on me	5
Self‐consciousness in autism: A third‐person perspective on the self	5
Spatial representations in sensory modalities	5
Assertion, denial, and the evolution of Boolean operators	5
The theory theory of metalinguistic disputes	5
Is pain modular?	4
Teleosemantics and the frogs	4
Coming from a world without objects	4
Evaluative theories in psychology and philosophy of emotion	4
Should the teleosemanticist be afraid of semantic indeterminacy?	4
Entitativity and implicit measures of social cognition	4
Notions of arbitrariness	4
Rules of use	4
First saying, then believing: The pragmatic roots of folk psychology	4
What are linguistic representations?	4
What do plants and bacteria want? Commentary on Carrie Figdor's Pieces of mind	4
Weakneo‐Whorfianismand the philosophy of time	4
Going on as one ought: Kripke and Wittgenstein on the normativity of meaning	4
The empirical status of semantic perceptualism	3
Perceiving agency	3
A metacognitive account of phenomenal force	3
Vividness and content	3
Spatial content of painful sensations	3
Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication	3
Moral rationalism on the brain	3
Against the mind package view of minds: Comments on Carrie Figdor'sPieces of mind	3
The rational role of the perceptual sense of reality	3
Experiences of linguistic understanding as epistemic feelings	3
A vessel without a pilot: Bodily and affective experience in the Cotard delusion of inexistence	3
Assertoric content, responsibility, and metasemantics	3
The definition of assertion: Commitment and truth	3
How language shapes our minds: On the relationship between generics, stereotypes and social norms	3
Objectivity, perceptual constancy, and teleology in young children	3
Conceptual engineering, predictive processing, and a new implementation problem	3
Underwhelming force: Evaluating the neuropsychological evidence for higher‐order theories of consciousness	3
Core morality? Or merely core agents and social beings? A response to Spelke'swhat babies know	3
The innocuousness of folieism and the need of intentionality where transduction fails: Replies to Adger and to Stainton & Viger	3

Experiential holism in time	2
Speaker's reference, semantic reference, sneaky reference	2
Backtracking through interventions: An exogenous intervention model for counterfactual semantics	2
Is meaning cognized?	2
Consciousness as a natural kind and the methodological puzzle of consciousness	2
Does the mind care about whether a word is abstract or concrete? Why concreteness is probably not a natural kind	2
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On the roles of false belief and recalcitrant fear in anorexia nervosa	2
What is diffuse attention?	2
Missing persons: Young children's talk about absent members of their social network	2
Pretend play: More imitative than imaginative	2
Recognition and the perception–cognition divide	2
Troubles with Rey's linguistic Eliminativism	2
Reinforcement learning and artificial agency	2
Susanna Schellenberg on perception	2
Normative folk psychology and decision theory	2
How to think about higher‐level perceptual contents	2
Teleology beyond explanation	2
Why I am not a literalist	2
Experiments on causal exclusion	2
Explaining early generics: A linguistic model	2
Solipsistic sentience	2
What is it like to be colour‐blind? A case study in experimental philosophy of experience	2
Stone tools, predictive processing and the evolution of language	2
Tracking representationalism and olfaction	2
The perspective‐sensitivity of presuppositions	1
The generality and particularity of perception	1
Spatial experience and olfaction: A role for naïve topology	1
Reasonable compartmentalization?	1
Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind	1
Design and syntax in pictures	1
Beyond adverbialism: A new non‐relational theory of perceptual experience	1
How we got stuck: The origins of hierarchy and inequality	1
Capacitism and the transparency of evidence	1
The perceived unity of time	1
Metaphysics of the Bayesian mind	1
Disgust and the logic of contamination: Biology, culture, and the evolution of norm (over)compliance	1
Focus on slurs	1
“Philosophers care about the truth”: Descriptive/normative generics	1
Are psychopaths moral‐psychologically impaired? Reassessing emotion‐theoretical explanations	1
The acquisition of generics	1
A (contingent) content–parthood analysis of indirect speech reports	1
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Representing shape in sight and touch	1
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Rainbow's end: The structure, character, and content of conscious experience	1
A Bayesian interpretation of cross‐linguistic ambiguity tests	1
Confusion and explanation	1
Are sensory experiences contingently representational? A critical notice of David Papineau's The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience	1
Why literalism is still the best game in town: Replies to Drayson, Machery, and Schwitzgebel	1
Against neuroclassicism: On the perils of armchair neuroscience	1
Core knowledge, language learning, and the origins of morality and pedagogy: Reply to reviews of What babies know	1
Shared semantics: Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication	1
How we talk about smells	1
Further thoughts on hierarchy and inequality	1
Content and phenomenology in The unity of perception	1
Losing the light at the end of the tunnel: Depression, future thinking, and hope	1
Self‐signs and intensional contexts	1
Language and children's understanding of knowledge: Epistemic talk in early childhood	1