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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis45
A graded semantics for counterfactuals45
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?38
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena38
The value of common knowledge34
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism24
Language games and the emergence of discourse22
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning22
Imagining one experience to be another22
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link20
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination20
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism17
On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion17
Interventionist counterfactuals and the nearness of worlds16
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency16
Long-arm functional individuation of computation15
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences15
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem15
Argumentation and the problem of agreement14
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination14
Science advice: making credences accurate14
Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations13
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering12
Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge12
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior12
A rational route to transformative decisions12
The necessity of conceivability12
The dynamical essence of powers12
Credal accuracy and knowledge12
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context11
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach11
Knot much like tonk10
In defence of constitutive rules10
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox10
Artifactual normativity10
Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism10
The value of cost-free uncertain evidence9
Defeaters and the generality problem9
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization9
On the pragmatic and epistemic virtues of inference to the best explanation9
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics9
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time9
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements9
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations9
Disagreement in philosophy9
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception9
Causal fundamentality9
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism8
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling8
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments8
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations8
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus8
One world is (probably) just as good as many8
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion8
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors8
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations8
How are fictions given? Conjoining the ‘artifactual theory’ and the ‘imaginary-object theory’8
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem8
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity8
What are mathematical diagrams?8
Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience7
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations7
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle7
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias7
Unsettledness in times of change6
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory6
Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism6
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory6
The paradox paradox6
Reasoning by grounded analogy6
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation6
Communicating in contextual ignorance6
Interests from and in conventions6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding6
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models6
Generics as instructions6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition6
A problem for extensional theories of time-consciousness5
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice5
Spacetime: function and approximation5
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better5
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’5
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events5
Preventive and curative medical interventions5
A new solution to the safety dilemma5
The physicality of representation5
Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher: a preliminary report5
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment5
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance5
A fixed-point problem for theories of meaning4
Nominalist dispositional essentialism4
How can belief be akratic?4
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?4
Action control, forward models and expected rewards: representations in reinforcement learning4
Tropes variations: the topic of particulars beyond Sellars’s myth of the given4
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing4
On modality in fiction4
Semantic theories, linguistic essences, and knowledge of meaning4
Don’t worry, be happy?4
Intuitions, theory choice and the ameliorative character of logical theories4
Tracking probabilistic truths: a logic for statistical learning4
Brownian motion from a deterministic system of particles4
Contraries, oppositions, and contradictions: a species/genus account of humean contrariety4
Why classical logic is privileged: justification of logics based on translatability4
Belief does not entail a reasoning disposition4
Cut-off points for the rational believer4
Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research4
Understanding causation4
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency4
Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination4
A novel understanding of the nature of epistemic vice4
Trusting scientific experts in an online world4
Mathematics embodied: Merleau-Ponty on geometry and algebra as fields of motor enaction4
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood3
Trustworthy simulations and their epistemic hierarchy3
The transparency of expressivism3
A new problem for internalism3
Goff’s revelation thesis and the epistemology of colour discrimination3
Deliberation and confidence change3
Rationality in games and institutions3
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC3
Against Hirsch's metaontological deflationism3
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations3
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement3
Causality and determination revisited3
Acquaintance, knowledge, and value3
Open future, supervaluationism and the growing-block theory: a stage-theoretical account3
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics3
A paradox about sets of properties3
‘Animals run about the world in all sorts of paths’: varieties of indeterminism3
In defence of epistemic vices3
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty3
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue3
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?3
Explaining coincidences3
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection3
The mathematical stance3
In defense of flip-flopping3
Existential dread and the B-theory of time3
Conceptual domination3
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium3
Epistemic austerity: limits to entitlement3
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology2
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: design for natural and artificial systems2
When statistical evidence is not specific enough2
Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism2
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal2
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics2
Dispositions manifest themselves: an identity theory of properties2
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic2
In defence of explanatory realism2
Does loudness represent sound intensity?2
A reductive analysis of statements about universals2
Lost for words: anxiety, well-being, and the costs of conceptual deprivation2
The determinacy of computation2
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science2
Confirmation by analogy2
Causation comes in degrees2
Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies2
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics2
The cost of closure: logical realism, anti-exceptionalism, and theoretical equivalence2
Against telic monism in logic2
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance2
Science, assertion, and the common ground2
A Peircean examination of Gettier’s two cases2
Expressing logical disagreement from within2
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies2
Possibility, relevant similarity, and structural knowledge2
Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem2
Minimal contents, lying, and conventions of language2
Knowledge attribution, socioeconomic status, and education: new results using the Great British Class Survey2
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up2
The a-theory of time, temporal passage, and comprehensiveness2
Dynamic probability and the problem of initial conditions2
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought2
Sensing mind-independence2
On luck and significance2
Merely superficially contingent a priori knowledge and the McKinsey paradox2
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction2
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?2
Intelligence involves intensionality: An explanatory issue for radical enactivism (again)2
P, but you don’t know that P2
Natural kinds, mind-independence, and unification principles2
The epistemic value of independent lies: false analogies and equivocations2
Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts2
Ostrich tropes2
Motor representation in acting together2
Correction to: The nature of disagreement: matters of taste and environs2
Two quantum logics of indeterminacy2
Logic talk2
Infinite frequency principles of direct inference2
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies2
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology2
Normalisation and subformula property for a system of intuitionistic logic with general introduction and elimination rules2
Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience2
Disagreement and epistemic improvement2
Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals2
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