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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
A contemporary example of Reichenbachian coordination185
The mathematical stance54
Building low level causation out of high level causation46
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis46
Asymmetry cannot solve the circularity/regress problem of property structuralism43
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue36
Making imagination even more embodied: imagination, constraint and epistemic relevance34
Language games and the emergence of discourse33
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism33
Conventions, morals and strategy: Greta’s dilemma and the incarceration game28
What is so special about episodic memory: lessons from the system-experience distinction26
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought23
The value of common knowledge22
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science21
Correction to: First-person representations and responsible agency in AI20
Four Dilemmas of the "Superstring theory" and new responses from the "Singularity theory" in the view of Information Ontology19
Moral encroachment and the epistemic impermissibility of (some) microaggressions19
The key to the knowledge norm of action is ambiguity19
Metaphysics, bullshit, and the analysis of philosophical problems18
Intentional mind-wandering as intentional omission: the surrealist method15
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics15
A graded semantics for counterfactuals15
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements14
Social constructivism in mathematics? The promise and shortcomings of Julian Cole’s institutional account14
Generics: some (non) specifics14
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement14
A Battle in the Statistics Wars: a simulation-based comparison of Bayesian, Frequentist and Williamsonian methodologies14
When is an ensemble like a sample? “Model-based” inferences in climate modeling14
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood14
Knowledge and reasoning13
Causation comes in degrees13
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?13
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?13
Philosophy’s gender gap and argumentative arena: an empirical study12
True lies and Moorean redundancy12
Austrian economics without extreme apriorism: A critical reply12
Computational modeling in philosophy: introduction to a topical collection12
Explanation, justification, and egalitarianism12
‘I love women’: an explicit explanation of implicit bias test results11
Approaching probabilistic laws11
Normalisation and subformula property for a system of intuitionistic logic with general introduction and elimination rules11
Anti-exceptionalism, truth and the BA-plan11
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models11
Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism11
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations10
Causality and determination revisited10
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies10
Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience10
Megarian Variable Actualism10
The transparency of expressivism10
Typing testimony10
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation10
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena10
Imagining one experience to be another10
Conceptualizing causal powers: activity, capacity, essence, necessitation10
The problem of perceptual invariance10
Resolving empirical controversies with mechanistic evidence10
What is it like to be a chimpanzee?9
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle9
Emergence within social systems9
Trustworthy simulations and their epistemic hierarchy9
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination8
The clinical significance of anomalous experience in the explanation of monothematic delusions8
What have we learned about the engram?8
Points of convergence between logical empiricism and inductive metaphysics: Hans Reichenbach and Erich Becher in comparison8
Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction8
Agential thinking8
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory8
A new problem for internalism8
Metasemantics and boydian synthetic moral naturalism8
Coordination in theory extension: how Reichenbach can help us understand endogenization in evolutionary biology8
There is nothing to identity8
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning8
Epistemic austerity: limits to entitlement8
Introduction to special issue: Skepticism and Epistemic Angst8
The strong arm of the law: a unified account of necessary and contingent laws of nature8
Strong knowledge, weak belief?8
Epistemicism and response-dependence8
Acquaintance, knowledge, and value8
Logic talk8
What epistemologists of testimony should learn from philosophers of science8
Screening off generalized: Reichenbach’s legacy7
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty7
Reasoning and its limits7
Modeling the precautionary principle with lexical utilities7
Goff’s revelation thesis and the epistemology of colour discrimination7
Feynman diagrams7
Reasoning by grounded analogy7
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies7
Recognizing why vision is inferential7
Bernoulli’s golden theorem in retrospect: error probabilities and trustworthy evidence7
Deliberation and confidence change7
In defence of epistemic vices7
In defense of flip-flopping7
Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem7
Interests from and in conventions7
Interventionist counterfactuals and the nearness of worlds6
An externalist teleology6
The distinct existences argument revisited6
Unsettledness in times of change6
Grounding and a priori epistemology: challenges for conceptualism6
On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion6
Evidential pluralism and evidence of mechanisms in the social sciences6
Argumentation and the problem of agreement6
Revelation and the intuition of dualism6
Imagination, expectation, and “thoughts entangled in metaphors”6
Is cultural evolution always fast? Challenging the idea that cognitive gadgets would be capable of rapid and adaptive evolution6
The structuralist approach to underdetermination6
Truthmaking for Meinongians6
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding6
Understanding Frege’s notion of presupposition6
Salience and metaphysical explanation6
Perspectives on de se immunity6
There is overlap in letters: a mereological definition of word types6
Uncertainty, equality, fraternity6
The fittingness of emotions6
Same-tracking real kinds in the social sciences6
Ostrich tropes6
Are we free to imagine what we choose?5
Against Hirsch's metaontological deflationism5
Dormant and active emotional states5
Knowledge attribution, socioeconomic status, and education: new results using the Great British Class Survey5
Defending understanding-assent links5
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination5
Conceptual domination5
Meaning change and changing meaning5
Disagreement and epistemic improvement5
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations5
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences5
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics5
Extended cognition, assistive technology and education5
Correction to: The nature of disagreement: matters of taste and environs5
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic5
Correction to: Editorial: symmetries and asymmetries in physics5
Demystifying the myth of sensation: Wilfrid Sellars’ adverbialism reconsidered5
Understanding and scientific progress: lessons from epistemology5
Getting counterfactuals right: the perspective of the causal reasoner5
Underdetermination, holism, and feminist philosophy of science5
Reichenbach: scientific realist and logical empricist?5
Local causation5
Non-classical probabilities invariant under symmetries5
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology5
Long-arm functional individuation of computation5
Criteria for naturalness in conceptual spaces5
The paradox paradox4
The liberation of nature and knowledge: a case study on Hans Reichenbach’s naturalism4
Generics as instructions4
Arithmetic, enumerative induction and size bias4
Unity of the intellectual virtues4
How emotions are perceived4
Causation and cognition: an epistemic approach4
The silver bullet: justice as mutual advantage and the vulnerability objection4
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts4
Correction to: Constitutive relevance & mutual manipulability revisited4
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link4
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem4
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency4
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition4
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment4
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: design for natural and artificial systems4
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state4
Natural kinds of mental disorder4
‘Animals run about the world in all sorts of paths’: varieties of indeterminism4
Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher: a preliminary report4
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations4
Ramsey’s conditionals4
The epistemic value of deliberative democracy: how far can diversity take us?4
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism4
Putting representations to use4
The “All Lives Matter” response: QUD-shifting as epistemic injustice4
The meta-wisdom of crowds4
A paradox about sets of properties4
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling I: Systems and applicability4
Quantum pointillism with relational identity4
Conditionals and specific links—an experimental study4
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice4
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium4
Practical reasoning and degrees of outright belief4
Bodies in skilled performance: how dancers reflect through the living body4
Autism, epistemic injustice, and epistemic disablement: a relational account of epistemic agency4
No ground to bridge the gap4
The necessity of conceivability3
A kind route from grounding to fundamentality3
The epistemic value of independent lies: false analogies and equivocations3
Should pluralists be pluralists about pluralism?3
The directionality of topological explanations3
Humeanism in light of quantum gravity3
Fighting about frequency3
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’3
Rationality in games and institutions3
Truthlikeness for probabilistic laws3
Communicating in contextual ignorance3
Williamson on indicatives and suppositional heuristics3
The affective and normative intentionality of skilled performance: a radical embodied approach3
Reichenbach's best alternative account to the problem of induction3
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior3
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology3
Virtues for agents in directed social networks3
A problem for extensional theories of time-consciousness3
Credal accuracy and knowledge3
The dynamical essence of powers3
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering3
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory3
A puzzle about epistemic value and steps towards a solution3
Broad Medical Uncertainty and the ethical obligation for openness3
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions3
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics3
From speech to voice: on the content of inner speech3
Łukasiewicz’s concept of logic and anti-psychologism3
Collaborative knowledge: Where the distributed and commitment models merge3
Expressing logical disagreement from within3
Calculus as method or calculus as rules? Boole and Frege on the aims of a logical calculus3
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses3
On testimonial knowledge and its functions3
The future ain’t what it used to be3
The variety and limits of self-experience and identification in imagination3
Does loudness represent sound intensity?3
Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts3
Existential dread and the B-theory of time3
Dutch Book against Lewis3
Practical concepts and productive reasoning3
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better3
Strategic justice, conventionalism, and bargaining theory3
Correction to: Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context3
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC3
Alethic pluralism for pragmatists3
Science advice: making credences accurate3
Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors3
A new solution to the safety dilemma3
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony3
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal3
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance3
Getting a little closure for closure3
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events3
Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge3
Philosophy and cognitive science on spatial and temporal experience3
The physicality of representation3
Standing to epistemically blame2
How can representationalism accommodate degrees of belief? A dispositional representationalist proposal2
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time2
Stuck on repeat: Why do we continue to ruminate?2
Correction to: Fighting About Frequency2
Approaching probabilistic and deterministic nomic truths in an inductive probabilistic way2
How can belief be akratic?2
Invariance or equivalence: a tale of two principles2
Two approaches to natural kinds2
Revisiting Reichenbach’s logic2
Incompatibility, inconsistency, and logical analysis in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus2
Factive inferentialism and the puzzle of model-based explanation2
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