OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Synthese is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis	193
Knowledge and reasoning	47
A graded semantics for counterfactuals	44
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena	39
Megarian Variable Actualism	38
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?	33
The value of common knowledge	32
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism	22
Imagining one experience to be another	21
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination	21
Language games and the emergence of discourse	20
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning	18
The derivation of Poiseuille’s law: heuristic and explanatory considerations	17
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism	17
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link	17
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem	15
Local causation	15
Argumentation and the problem of agreement	15
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency	15
Interventionist counterfactuals and the nearness of worlds	15
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination	14
Long-arm functional individuation of computation	14
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences	14
A rational route to transformative decisions	13
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony	13

On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion	13
The necessity of conceivability	13
Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations	13
The dynamical essence of powers	12
A puzzle about epistemic value and steps towards a solution	12
Unity of the intellectual virtues	12
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior	12
Credal accuracy and knowledge	12
Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge	12
Science advice: making credences accurate	12
Artifactual normativity	11
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering	11
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context	11
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach	11
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization	10
Knot much like tonk	10
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time	10
In defence of constitutive rules	10
The no-free-lunch theorems of supervised learning	10
How can representationalism accommodate degrees of belief? A dispositional representationalist proposal	10
Should a higher-order metaphysician believe in properties?	10
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements	10
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception	10
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox	10
Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism	10
Defeaters and the generality problem	9
On the pragmatic and epistemic virtues of inference to the best explanation	9
Causal fundamentality	9
Making a difference in virtue epistemology	9
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem	9
Correction to: Another way logic might be normative	8
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics	8
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias	8
Disagreement in philosophy	8
What are mathematical diagrams?	8
A classical way forward for the regularity and normalization problems	8
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations	8
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism	8
KNOWING HOW as a philosophical hybrid	8
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling	8
How are fictions given? Conjoining the ‘artifactual theory’ and the ‘imaginary-object theory’	8
How (not) to construct worlds with responsibility	8
The value of cost-free uncertain evidence	8
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus	8
Strategic manipulation in Bayesian dialogues	8
Wittgenstein, deflationism and moral entities	8
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors	7
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations	7
One world is (probably) just as good as many	7
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity	7

The mechanism—the secret—of the given	7
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments	7
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation	6
Unsettledness in times of change	6
Predictive processing and anti-representationalism	6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding	6
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations	6
Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience	6
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations	6
Interests from and in conventions	6
Enculturation and the historical origins of number words and concepts	6
The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements	6
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory	6
Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism	6
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models	6
Reasoning by grounded analogy	6
The paradox paradox	6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition	6
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion	6
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle	6
Nominalist dispositional essentialism	5
Credible Futures	5
From speech to voice: on the content of inner speech	5
Spacetime: function and approximation	5
A new solution to the safety dilemma	5
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better	5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events	5
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses	5
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice	5
Cut-off points for the rational believer	5
Indeterminacy, coincidence, and “Sourcing Newness” in mathematical research	5
The future ain’t what it used to be	5
A problem for extensional theories of time-consciousness	5
Communicating in contextual ignorance	5
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory	5
The physicality of representation	5
Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher: a preliminary report	5
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment	5
Don’t worry, be happy?	5
Degrees of riskiness, falsifiability, and truthlikeness	5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance	5
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’	5
Humeanism in light of quantum gravity	5
Generics as instructions	5
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions	5
Preventive and curative medical interventions	5