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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Extended active inference: Constructing predictive cognition beyond skulls	49
Polysemy: Pragmatics and sense conventions	39
Polysemy and thought: Toward a generative theory of concepts	34
Non‐human consciousness and the specificity problem: A modest theoretical proposal	22
Aphantasia: In search of a theory	20
“I didn't mean to suggest anything like that!”: Deniability and context reconstruction	19
Insightful artificial intelligence	18
The signaling function of sharing fake stories	17
Accounting for the preference for literal meanings in autism spectrum conditions	16
Creating a large language model of a philosopher	15
Imitation and culture: What gives?	15
How (not) to underestimate unconscious perception	14
Signalling, commitment, and strategic absurdities	13
Can the mind wander intentionally?	13
Extended mind and artifactual autobiographical memory	12
Semantic polysemy and psycholinguistics	12
The polysemy view of pain	12
Decomposing relevance in conditionals	11
Cumulative culture and complex cultural traditions	10
The notorious neurophilosophy of pain: A family resemblance approach to idiosyncrasy and generalizability	9
The rationality of eating disorders	9
“All animals are conscious”: Shifting the null hypothesis in consciousness science	9
Normative inferentialism on linguistic understanding	9
Distributed autobiographical memories, distributed self‐narratives	8
How can perceptual experiences explain uncertainty?	8

Essentializing inferences	7
How thirst compels: An aggregation model of sensory motivation	7
Moving beyond content‐specific computation in artificial neural networks	7
Interpersonal trust in children's testimonial learning	6
Deflationary realism: Representation and idealisation in cognitive science	6
Anorexia nervosa: Illusion in the sense of agency	6
Do we see facts?	6
Integration, lateralization, and animal experience	6
A new empirical challenge for local theories of consciousness	6
The theory theory of metalinguistic disputes	6
Perceiving commitments: When we both know that you are counting on me	5
Metalinguistic effects	5
Enhancing thoughts: Culture, technology, and the evolution of human cognitive uniqueness	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
First saying, then believing: The pragmatic roots of folk psychology	4
Should the teleosemanticist be afraid of semantic indeterminacy?	4
Perceiving agency	4
What do plants and bacteria want? Commentary on Carrie Figdor's Pieces of mind	4
Conceptual engineering, predictive processing, and a new implementation problem	4
Going on as one ought: Kripke and Wittgenstein on the normativity of meaning	4
Evaluative theories in psychology and philosophy of emotion	4
Entitativity and implicit measures of social cognition	4
How language shapes our minds: On the relationship between generics, stereotypes and social norms	4
Notions of arbitrariness	4
Weakneo‐Whorfianismand the philosophy of time	4
Moral rationalism on the brain	4
Is pain modular?	4
What are linguistic representations?	4
Teleosemantics and the frogs	4
Rules of use	4
How to think about higher‐level perceptual contents	3
Objectivity, perceptual constancy, and teleology in young children	3
Experiences of linguistic understanding as epistemic feelings	3
Spatial content of painful sensations	3
Core morality? Or merely core agents and social beings? A response to Spelke'swhat babies know	3
Does the mind care about whether a word is abstract or concrete? Why concreteness is probably not a natural kind	3
On the roles of false belief and recalcitrant fear in anorexia nervosa	3
A metacognitive account of phenomenal force	3
Vividness and content	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
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
Underwhelming force: Evaluating the neuropsychological evidence for higher‐order theories of consciousness	3
Mental simulation and language comprehension: The case of copredication	3
The innocuousness of folieism and the need of intentionality where transduction fails: Replies to Adger and to Stainton & Viger	3
The empirical status of semantic perceptualism	3

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Teleology beyond explanation	2
Missing persons: Young children's talk about absent members of their social network	2
Recognition and the perception–cognition divide	2
Explaining early generics: A linguistic model	2
Core knowledge, language learning, and the origins of morality and pedagogy: Reply to reviews of What babies know	2
Reinforcement learning and artificial agency	2
Susanna Schellenberg on perception	2
Normative folk psychology and decision theory	2
Tracking representationalism and olfaction	2
Backtracking through interventions: An exogenous intervention model for counterfactual semantics	2
What is diffuse attention?	2
Speaker's reference, semantic reference, sneaky reference	2
Is meaning cognized?	2
Troubles with Rey's linguistic Eliminativism	2
Consciousness as a natural kind and the methodological puzzle of consciousness	2
How we got stuck: The origins of hierarchy and inequality	2
Stone tools, predictive processing and the evolution of language	2
Experiments on causal exclusion	2
Experiential holism in time	2
Why I am not a literalist	2
Pretend play: More imitative than imaginative	2
Solipsistic sentience	2
How words matter: A psycholinguistic argument for meaning revision	2
What is it like to be colour‐blind? A case study in experimental philosophy of experience	2
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Representing shape in sight and touch	1
Underdeterminacy without ostension: A blind spot in the prevailing models of communication	1
How computation explains	1
The perceived unity of time	1
A Bayesian interpretation of cross‐linguistic ambiguity tests	1
Kinding memory: Commentary on Muhammad Ali Khalidi's Cognitive ontology	1
The generality and particularity of perception	1
Why literalism is still the best game in town: Replies to Drayson, Machery, and Schwitzgebel	1
The acquisition of generics	1
A (contingent) content–parthood analysis of indirect speech reports	1
Shared semantics: Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication	1
How we talk about smells	1
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Losing the light at the end of the tunnel: Depression, future thinking, and hope	1
Capacitism and the transparency of evidence	1
Metaphysics of the Bayesian mind	1
Language and children's understanding of knowledge: Epistemic talk in early childhood	1
The perspective‐sensitivity of presuppositions	1
“Philosophers care about the truth”: Descriptive/normative generics	1
Spatial experience and olfaction: A role for naïve topology	1
Pictorial syntax	1
Public language, private language, and subsymbolic theories of mind	1
The missing link between core knowledge and language: Review of Elizabeth Spelke's What babies know, volume 1 (2022)	1
Beyond adverbialism: A new non‐relational theory of perceptual experience	1
Further thoughts on hierarchy and inequality	1
Disgust and the logic of contamination: Biology, culture, and the evolution of norm (over)compliance	1
Content and phenomenology in The unity of perception	1
Self‐signs and intensional contexts	1
Confusion and explanation	1
Focus on slurs	1
Are sensory experiences contingently representational? A critical notice of David Papineau's The Metaphysics of Sensory Experience	1
Reasonable compartmentalization?	1
Inter‐temporal rationality without temporal representation	1
Design and syntax in pictures	1