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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis193
Knowledge and reasoning47
A graded semantics for counterfactuals44
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena39
Megarian Variable Actualism38
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?33
The value of common knowledge32
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism22
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination21
Imagining one experience to be another21
Language games and the emergence of discourse20
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning18
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link17
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations17
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism17
Interventionist counterfactuals and the nearness of worlds15
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem15
Local causation15
Argumentation and the problem of agreement15
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency15
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences14
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination14
Long-arm functional individuation of computation14
On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion13
The necessity of conceivability13
Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations13
A rational route to transformative decisions13
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony13
Unity of the intellectual virtues12
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior12
Credal accuracy and knowledge12
Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge12
Science advice: making credences accurate12
The dynamical essence of powers12
A puzzle about epistemic value and steps towards a solution12
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering11
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context11
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach11
Artifactual normativity11
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements10
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception10
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox10
Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism10
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization10
Knot much like tonk10
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time10
In defence of constitutive rules10
The no-free-lunch theorems of supervised learning10
How can representationalism accommodate degrees of belief? A dispositional representationalist proposal10
Should a higher-order metaphysician believe in properties?10
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem9
Defeaters and the generality problem9
On the pragmatic and epistemic virtues of inference to the best explanation9
Causal fundamentality9
Making a difference in virtue epistemology9
A classical way forward for the regularity and normalization problems8
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations8
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism8
KNOWING HOW as a philosophical hybrid8
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling8
How are fictions given? Conjoining the ‘artifactual theory’ and the ‘imaginary-object theory’8
How (not) to construct worlds with responsibility8
The value of cost-free uncertain evidence8
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus8
Strategic manipulation in Bayesian dialogues8
Wittgenstein, deflationism and moral entities8
Correction to: Another way logic might be normative8
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics8
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias8
Disagreement in philosophy8
What are mathematical diagrams?8
The mechanism—the secret—of the given7
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments7
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors7
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations7
One world is (probably) just as good as many7
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity7
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models6
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations6
Reasoning by grounded analogy6
Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience6
The paradox paradox6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition6
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements6
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation6
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory6
Unsettledness in times of change6
Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism6
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding6
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion6
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations6
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle6
Interests from and in conventions6
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts6
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions5
Preventive and curative medical interventions5
Nominalist dispositional essentialism5
Credible Futures5
From speech to voice: on the content of inner speech5
Spacetime: function and approximation5
A new solution to the safety dilemma5
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events5
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses5
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice5
Cut-off points for the rational believer5
Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research5
The future ain’t what it used to be5
A problem for extensional theories of time-consciousness5
Communicating in contextual ignorance5
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory5
The physicality of representation5
Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher: a preliminary report5
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment5
Don’t worry, be happy?5
Degrees of riskiness, falsifiability, and truthlikeness5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance5
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’5
Humeanism in light of quantum gravity5
Generics as instructions5
Semantic theories, linguistic essences, and knowledge of meaning4
Explaining coincidences4
Authentication, scale-relativity, and relational kindhood4
Substructural approaches to paradox: an introduction to the special issue4
The mathematical stance4
Social constructivism in mathematics? The promise and shortcomings of Julian Cole’s institutional account4
Correction to: When nothing looks blue4
Open future, supervaluationism and the growing-block theory: a stage-theoretical account4
Neither mindful nor mindless, but minded: habits, ecological psychology, and skilled performance4
The transparency of expressivism4
Introduction: exploring the limits of imagination4
Belief does not entail a reasoning disposition4
A fixed-point problem for theories of meaning4
Contraries, oppositions, and contradictions: a species/genus account of humean contrariety4
Action control, forward models and expected rewards: representations in reinforcement learning4
Why classical logic is privileged: justification of logics based on translatability4
Resolving empirical controversies with mechanistic evidence4
Coordination in theory extension: how Reichenbach can help us understand endogenization in evolutionary biology4
Tracking probabilistic truths: a logic for statistical learning4
Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency4
Tropes variations: the topic of particulars beyond Sellars’s myth of the given4
Trusting scientific experts in an online world4
Intuitions, theory choice and the ameliorative character of logical theories4
Mathematics embodied: Merleau-Ponty on geometry and algebra as fields of motor enaction4
How can belief be akratic?4
Understanding causation4
A novel understanding of the nature of epistemic vice4
How can a line segment with extension be composed of extensionless points?4
Causality and determination revisited4
Dependent philosophical majorities and the skeptical argument from disagreement4
Anti-exceptionalism about logic as tradition rejection4
Practical reasons, theoretical reasons, and permissive and prohibitive balancing4
Brownian motion from a deterministic system of particles4
Can conceptual engineering actually promote social justice?4
On modality in fiction4
A psychological theory of reasoning as logical evidence: a Piagetian perspective4
Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state3
Disagreement without discovery and the epistemological argument for freedom from poverty3
Modal inferences in science: a tale of two epistemologies3
Multivariate pattern analysis and the search for neural representations3
The cost of closure: logical realism, anti-exceptionalism, and theoretical equivalence3
Against Hirsch's metaontological deflationism3
Confirmation by analogy3
Deliberation and confidence change3
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction3
A new problem for internalism3
Why kinship is progeneratively constrained: Extending anthropology3
Trustworthy simulations and their epistemic hierarchy3
Existential dread and the B-theory of time3
Against telic monism in logic3
‘Animals run about the world in all sorts of paths’: varieties of indeterminism3
Merely superficially contingent a priori knowledge and the McKinsey paradox3
Conceptual domination3
Sensing mind-independence3
In defense of flip-flopping3
Neuromedia, cognitive offloading, and intellectual perseverance3
In defence of epistemic vices3
Evolutionary psychology, learning, and belief signaling: design for natural and artificial systems3
Acquaintance, knowledge, and value3
Creativity and modelling the measurement process of the Higgs self-coupling at the LHC and HL-LHC3
Rationality in games and institutions3
Epistemic austerity: limits to entitlement3
A paradox about sets of properties3
Calculus as method or calculus as rules? Boole and Frege on the aims of a logical calculus3
Descriptive multiscale modeling in data-driven neuroscience3
The meta-wisdom of crowds3
Disambiguation in conversation: the case of disambiguating parentheticals3
The mereology of thermodynamic equilibrium3
Virtue theory of mathematical practices: an introduction3
The clinical significance of anomalous experience in the explanation of monothematic delusions3
P, but you don’t know that P3
Goff’s revelation thesis and the epistemology of colour discrimination3
The variety and limits of self-experience and identification in imagination3
Indeterminism in physics and intuitionistic mathematics3
Are ABM explanations in the social sciences inevitably individualist?3
Grounding and a priori epistemology: challenges for conceptualism3
Taming vagueness: the philosophy of network science2
The physics and the philosophy of time reversal in standard quantum mechanics2
Infinite frequency principles of direct inference2
A plea for distinctions (counterfactuals and differential equations)2
Models, structures, and the explanatory role of mathematics in empirical science2
Anxious feelings, anxious friends: on anxiety and friendship2
Truthlikeness for probabilistic laws2
Causation comes in degrees2
Between mechanical clocks and emergent flocks: complexities in biology2
Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts2
Minimal contents, lying, and conventions of language2
Does loudness represent sound intensity?2
Active inference models do not contradict folk psychology2
Salience and metaphysical explanation2
Dispositions manifest themselves: an identity theory of properties2
Logic talk2
Infinite-population approval voting: A proposal2
Conceptual engineering and operationalism in psychology2
A reductive analysis of statements about universals2
Conciliatory views, higher-order disagreements, and defeasible logic2
Correction to: Editorial: symmetries and asymmetries in physics2
Stuck on repeat: Why do we continue to ruminate?2
The knowledge norm of assertion: keep it simple2
A Peircean examination of Gettier’s two cases2
Predictive minds can think: addressing generality and surface compositionality of thought2
Lie for me: the intent to deceive fails to scale up2
The epistemic value of independent lies: false analogies and equivocations2
Possibility, relevant similarity, and structural knowledge2
No normative free lunch: relevance and the autonomy of the normative domain2
In defence of explanatory realism2
Structuralist approaches to Bohmian mechanics2
Phenomenal properties are luminous properties2
Correction to: The nature of disagreement: matters of taste and environs2
Dynamic probability and the problem of initial conditions2
Ostrich tropes2
The time-lag argument and simultaneity2
Phenomenal intentionality, inner awareness, and the given2
Normalisation and subformula property for a system of intuitionistic logic with general introduction and elimination rules2
Knowing more (about questions)2
Emotions as indeterminate justifiers2
Group intellectual transparency: a novel case for non-summativism2
Imagination as a skill: A Bayesian proposal2
Limits to evidential pluralism: multi-method large-N qualitative analysis and the primacy of mechanistic studies2
On luck and significance2
Expressing logical disagreement from within2
Gappy, glutty, glappy2
Disagreement and epistemic improvement2
Motor representation in acting together2
Knowledge attribution, socioeconomic status, and education: new results using the Great British Class Survey2
When statistical evidence is not specific enough2
Virtue signalling and the Condorcet Jury theorem2
Quantum metametaphysics2
Epistemic injustice and data science technologies2
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