OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The value of common knowledge	55
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis	46
Language games and the emergence of discourse	27
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination	26
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning	24
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency	20
Argumentation and the problem of agreement	20
Credal accuracy and knowledge	18
Science advice: making credences accurate	18
The necessity of conceivability	16
Artifactual normativity	15
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering	15
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context	15
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox	14
Knot much like tonk	14
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach	12
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception	11
Causal fundamentality	10
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus	10
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem	10
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements	10
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling	9
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism	9
Disagreement in philosophy	9
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations	9

One world is (probably) just as good as many	8
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias	8
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments	8
What are mathematical diagrams?	8
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations	8
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding	7
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations	7
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models	7
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion	7
Unsettledness in times of change	7
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle	7
The paradox paradox	6
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice	6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition	6
A new solution to the safety dilemma	6
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions	6
Interests from and in conventions	6
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better	6
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment	5
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory	5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events	5
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’	5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance	5
Cut-off points for the rational believer	4
Don’t worry, be happy?	4
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?	4
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency	4
A novel understanding of the nature of epistemic vice	4
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing	4
Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination	4
A fixed-point problem for theories of meaning	4
Nominalist dispositional essentialism	4
Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research	4
Contraries, oppositions, and contradictions: a species/genus account of humean contrariety	4
Brownian motion from a deterministic system of particles	4
Preventive and curative medical interventions	4
Mathematics embodied: Merleau-Ponty on geometry and algebra as fields of motor enaction	4
Spacetime: function and approximation	4
Trusting scientific experts in an online world	4
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection	4
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?	4
In defence of epistemic vices	3
Against telic monism in logic	3
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?	3
Possibility, relevant similarity, and structural knowledge	3
Merely superficially contingent a priori knowledge and the McKinsey paradox	3
The mathematical stance	3
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty	3
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology	3
A reductive analysis of statements about universals	3

Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience	3
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology	3
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance	3
The transparency of expressivism	3
Deliberation and confidence change	3
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction	3
Confirmation by analogy	3
Minimal contents, lying, and conventions of language	3
Motor representation in acting together	3
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement	3
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood	3
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought	2
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies	2
The a-theory of time, temporal passage, and comprehensiveness	2
Infinite frequency principles of direct inference	2
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic	2
Philosophers’ linguistic expertise: a psycholinguistic approach to the expertise objection against experimental philosophy	2
Knowing more (about questions)	2
Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism	2
Expressing logical disagreement from within	2
Causation comes in degrees	2
Science, assertion, and the common ground	2
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics	2
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up	2
On luck and significance	2
Having a disagreement: expression, persuasion and demand	2
A plea for distinctions (counterfactuals and differential equations)	2
Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts	2
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science	2
The determinacy of computation	2
Intelligence involves intensionality: An explanatory issue for radical enactivism (again)	2
Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles	2
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies	2
Ostrich tropes	2
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal	2
Are we free to make the laws?	2
Does loudness represent sound intensity?	2