Synthese

Papers
(The median citation count of Synthese 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.)
ArticleCitations
A graded semantics for counterfactuals45
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena43
The value of common knowledge41
Language games and the emergence of discourse25
Imagining one experience to be another23
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination22
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis20
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning20
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism17
On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion16
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences15
Long-arm functional individuation of computation15
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency15
Argumentation and the problem of agreement15
A rational route to transformative decisions14
Credal accuracy and knowledge14
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering14
The necessity of conceivability14
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context12
The dynamical essence of powers12
Artifactual normativity12
Science advice: making credences accurate12
In defence of constitutive rules11
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox11
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time10
Knot much like tonk10
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach9
Disagreement in philosophy9
The value of cost-free uncertain evidence9
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception9
Causal fundamentality9
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics9
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements9
Defeaters and the generality problem9
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations9
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism9
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem8
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments8
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus8
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion8
One world is (probably) just as good as many8
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling8
What are mathematical diagrams?8
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations8
How are fictions given? Conjoining the ‘artifactual theory’ and the ‘imaginary-object theory’8
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias7
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations7
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity7
Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding6
Interests from and in conventions6
Reasoning by grounded analogy6
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation6
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models6
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory6
The paradox paradox6
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle6
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory6
Unsettledness in times of change6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition6
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better5
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice5
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions5
A new solution to the safety dilemma5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance5
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses5
A problem for extensional theories of time-consciousness5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events5
Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination4
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency4
The physicality of representation4
Spacetime: function and approximation4
Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research4
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment4
Belief does not entail a reasoning disposition4
Trusting scientific experts in an online world4
Cut-off points for the rational believer4
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’4
Don’t worry, be happy?4
Semantic theories, linguistic essences, and knowledge of meaning4
On modality in fiction4
Understanding causation4
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing4
How can belief be akratic?4
Preventive and curative medical interventions4
Nominalist dispositional essentialism4
A fixed-point problem for theories of meaning4
Mathematics embodied: Merleau-Ponty on geometry and algebra as fields of motor enaction4
The mathematical stance3
A new problem for internalism3
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue3
In defense of flip-flopping3
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics3
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement3
The transparency of expressivism3
Explaining coincidences3
Contraries, oppositions, and contradictions: a species/genus account of humean contrariety3
Why classical logic is privileged: justification of logics based on translatability3
Action control, forward models and expected rewards: representations in reinforcement learning3
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?3
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty3
Deliberation and confidence change3
Trustworthy simulations and their epistemic hierarchy3
Goff’s revelation thesis and the epistemology of colour discrimination3
Acquaintance, knowledge, and value3
Open future, supervaluationism and the growing-block theory: a stage-theoretical account3
Brownian motion from a deterministic system of particles3
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?3
Causality and determination revisited3
Conceptual domination3
Epistemic austerity: limits to entitlement3
Against Hirsch's metaontological deflationism3
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood3
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection3
Tracking probabilistic truths: a logic for statistical learning3
A novel understanding of the nature of epistemic vice3
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic2
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics2
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought2
Minimal contents, lying, and conventions of language2
On luck and significance2
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?2
Science, assertion, and the common ground2
Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience2
Two quantum logics of indeterminacy2
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology2
Possibility, relevant similarity, and structural knowledge2
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance2
A paradox about sets of properties2
In defence of epistemic vices2
In defence of explanatory realism2
Logic talk2
Causation comes in degrees2
Normalisation and subformula property for a system of intuitionistic logic with general introduction and elimination rules2
Dispositions manifest themselves: an identity theory of properties2
Disagreement and epistemic improvement2
Confirmation by analogy2
Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles2
Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies2
The determinacy of computation2
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction2
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up2
P, but you don’t know that P2
Existential dread and the B-theory of time2
Sensing mind-independence2
A reductive analysis of statements about universals2
Knowledge attribution, socioeconomic status, and education: new results using the Great British Class Survey2
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science2
Merely superficially contingent a priori knowledge and the McKinsey paradox2
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies2
Dynamic probability and the problem of initial conditions2
Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation2
Against telic monism in logic2
Intelligence involves intensionality: An explanatory issue for radical enactivism (again)2
Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals2
Infinite frequency principles of direct inference2
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: design for natural and artificial systems2
The a-theory of time, temporal passage, and comprehensiveness2
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology2
Rationality in games and institutions2
Motor representation in acting together2
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