OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ergo-An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Axiology of Abortion: Should We Hope Pro-Choicers or Pro-Lifers are Right?	12
An Adam Smithian Account of Humanity	11
What Are Symmetries?	10
Are We Playing a Moral Lottery? Moral Disagreement from a Metasemantic Perspective	10
Perceiving the Event of Emotion	9
From Doxastic Blame to Doxastic Shame	9
Ought-Implies-Can in Context	7
Hope as a Source of Grit	6
On the Ethics of Imagination and Ethical-Aesthetic Value Interaction in Fiction	6
Janus-Faced Grounding	6
Nudges, Nudging, and Self-Guidance Under the Influence	6
Kant on Being a Useful Member of the World and Universal Basic Income	6
Which Reason? Which Rationality?	5
Breaking Up and the Value of Commitment	5
Contextualism and the Semantics of "Woman"	5
Institutional Racism without Racist Ideology: A Critique of Tommie Shelby's Marxist Theory of Racism	5
No Platforming and Academic Freedom	5
How to Not Go All-In on Public Justification	4
Can Animals Grieve?	4
Misleading Higher-Order Evidence, Conflicting Ideals, and Defeasible Logic	4
Trope Mental Causation: Still Not Qua Mental	4
Detecting Introspective Errors in Consciousness Science	4
Chisholm’s Paradox Revisited: Puzzles regarding Contrary-to-Duty Obligations and a Dynamic Solution	4
On the Epistemic Value of Reflection	4
Fictionalism about Chatbots	4

Mental Filing Systems: A User's Guide	4
Lying, Deceptive Implicatures, and Commitment	4
The Vagaries of References	4
Constitution, Non-Causal Explanation, and Demarcation	3
Controlling (Mental) Images and the Aesthetic Perception of Racialized Bodies	3
Race and the Politics of Loss: Revisiting the Legacy of Emmett Till	3
Cruel Intentions and Evil Deeds	3
Hume’s Justice and the Problem of the Missing Motive	3
Telling the Stories of Others	3
Unity and Application	3
The Limits of Spinoza's Perfectionism	3
Causation, Cluelessness, and the Long Term	3
Fallibility without Facts	3
Everywhere Chimerical	3
Against the Precisificational Approach to Fictional Inconsistencies	3
Nudge Transparency Is Not Required for Nudge Resistibility	3
Eschatology and the Limits of Philosophy in the <i>Phaedo</i>	2
The Syndrome of Love	2
Defending Elective Forgiveness	2
Subjectivity in Film: Mine, Yours, and No One’s	2
Moral Emotions and Unnamed Wrongs: Revisiting Epistemic Injustice	2
Emotional Injustice	2
Signal Manipulation and the Causal Analysis of Racial Discrimination	2
Defining Definiteness	2
The Feeling Animal	2
Visual Asynchrony & Temporally Extended Contents	2
Organized Sound, Sounds Heard, and Silence	2
Suppositional Desires and Rational Choice Under Moral Uncertainty	2
Measuring Ontological Simplicity	2
Collective Communicative Intentions in Context	2
The Foundations of Criminal Law Epistemology	2
Interpreting the Probabilistic Language in IPCC Reports	2
Quietism and Counter-Normativity	2
What’s So Special About Reasoning? Rationality, Belief Updating, and Internalism	2
Non-Additive Axiologies in Large Worlds	2
A Paleo-Criticism of Modes of Being: Brentano and Marty against Bolzano, Husserl, and Meinong	2
Frantz Fanon’s Decolonized Dialectics: The Primacy of the Affective Weight of the Past	1
Bad News for Ardent Normative Realists?	1
Transient Particulars	1
Transduction, Calibration, and the Penetrability of Pain	1
‘Half Victim, Half Accomplice’: Cat Person and Narcissism	1
Extending Similarity-Based Epistemology of Modality with Models	1
Purity and Practical Reason: On Pragmatic Genealogy	1
Moral Principles: A Challenge for Deniers of Moral Luck	1
Convergence and Shared Reflective Equilibrium	1
The Imperialism of Desert	1
Against Fregean Quantification	1
Formalizing Reasons, Oughts, and Requirements	1
In Defense of Clutter	1
Identifying Primitive Individuals	1

Measurement Scepticism, Construct Validation, and Methodology of Well-Being Theorising	1
Eliminativism and Evolutionary Debunking	1
Haecceitism and Symmetry-Breaking: Things, Time, and Powers	1
Transformative Embodied Cognition	1
Is There Anti-Fittingness?	1
Musical Notation	1
Folk Intuitions about Reference Change and the Causal Theory of Reference	1
Correction Notice for "Epistemic Exploitation" by Nora Berenstain (<i>Ergo</i>, 2016, Vol. 3)	1
On Mentioning Belief-Formation Methods in Sensitivity Subjunctives	1
Literary Racial Impersonation	1
The Second Revolution of Moral Fictionalism	1
Accuracy-First Epistemology and Scientific Progress	1
Ontology as a Guide to Politics? Judith Butler on Interdependency, Vulnerability, and Nonviolence	1
Can the World Be Indeterminate in All Respects?	1
What Kind of Non-Realism is Fictionalism?	1
Why Do Women Philosophy Students Drop Out of Philosophy? Some Evidence from the Classroom at the Bachelor’s Level	1
Believing in Shmeliefs	1
Arrangement and Timing: Photography, Causation and Anti-Empiricist Aesthetics	1
Directing Thought	1
Toward an Expressivist View of Women's Autonomy	1
The Nature of Timbre	1
Civil Disobedience, Costly Signals, and Leveraging Injustice	1
Susan Stebbing on Logical Positivism and Communication	1
Let's See You Do Better: An Essay on the Standing to Criticize	1
Including Transgender Identities in Natural Law	1
On the Reduction of Constitutive to Consequential Essence	1
Materialism and Mental Manyism	1
Exclusion and Erasure: Two Types of Ontological Opression	1
Obligatory Gifts: An Essay on Forgiveness	1
Order-Based Salience Patterns in Language: What They Are and Why They Matter	1
Convergence, Community, and Force in Aesthetic Discourse	1
Folk Psychology and the Interpretation of Decision Theory	1
Utilitarianism Is a Form of Egalitarianism	1
Counterfactuals and Abduction	1
A Simple Solution to the Scope Problem	1
Nature, Consciousness, and Metaphysics in Merleau-Ponty’s Early Thought	1
Nietzsche's Concept of Health	1
Image and Indeterminacy in Heidegger’s Schematism	1
Shepherd’s Case for the Demonstrability of Causal Principles	1
One “True” Meaning	1
The Aesthetic Engagement Theory of Art	1
Emojis as Pictures	1
The Logic of Contingent Actuality	1
The Discreteness of Matter: Leibniz on Plurality and Part-Whole Priority	1
Epistemic Luck, Knowledge-How, and Intentional Action	1
Health, Disease, and the Medicalization of Low Sexual Desire: A Vignette-Based Experimental Study	1
Regret Averse Opinion Aggregation	1
Consciousness is Sublime	1
Nietzsche’s Genealogical Critique of Morality & the Historical Zarathustra	1
Can a Question Be a Lie? An Empirical Investigation	1
Showing Seeing in Film	1
Busting the Ghost of Neutral Counterparts	1
Heidegger on Anxiety and Normative Practice	1