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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A graded semantics for counterfactuals	45
Tough enough? Robust satisficing as a decision norm for long-term policy analysis	45
Beyond the limits of imagination: abductive inferences from imagined phenomena	38
Social categories in the making: construction or recruitment?	38
The value of common knowledge	34
Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism	24
Conceptual challenges for interpretable machine learning	22
Imagining one experience to be another	22
Language games and the emergence of discourse	22
Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link	20
Science, responsibility, and the philosophical imagination	20
On the meaning of EPR’s Reality Criterion	17
Degrees of epistemic dependence: an extension of Pritchard’s response to epistemic situationism	17
“Let’s build an Anscombe box”: assessing Anscombe’s rebuttal of the statistics objection against indeterminism-based free agency	16
Interventionist counterfactuals and the nearness of worlds	16
Taming the tyranny of scales: models and scale in the geosciences	15
Ethical machine decisions and the input-selection problem	15
Long-arm functional individuation of computation	15
Vendler’s puzzle about imagination	14
Science advice: making credences accurate	14
Argumentation and the problem of agreement	14
Reasons explanations (of actions) as structural explanations	13
Metastable attunement and real-life skilled behavior	12
A rational route to transformative decisions	12
The necessity of conceivability	12

The dynamical essence of powers	12
Credal accuracy and knowledge	12
The good, the bad and the insignificant—assessing concept functions for conceptual engineering	12
Davidson, first-person authority, and direct self-knowledge	12
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach	11
Oswald revisited: the effect of focus and context	11
The Boolean Many-Valued Solution to the Sorites Paradox	10
Artifactual normativity	10
Taming conceptual wanderings: Wilson-Structuralism	10
Knot much like tonk	10
In defence of constitutive rules	10
On the pragmatic and epistemic virtues of inference to the best explanation	9
Discursive habits: a representationalist re-reading of teleosemiotics	9
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time	9
A critique of strong Anti-Archimedeanism: metaethics, conceptual jurisprudence, and legal disagreements	9
Cognitive extra-mathematical explanations	9
Disagreement in philosophy	9
Temporal binding: digging into animal minds through time perception	9
Causal fundamentality	9
The value of cost-free uncertain evidence	9
Defeaters and the generality problem	9
From neurodiversity to neurodivergence: the role of epistemic and cognitive marginalization	9
Logical form and logical space in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus	8
One world is (probably) just as good as many	8
Lying, hedging, and the norms of assertion	8
Active biological mechanisms: transforming energy into motion in molecular motors	8
Commitment engineering: conceptual engineering without representations	8
How are fictions given? Conjoining the ‘artifactual theory’ and the ‘imaginary-object theory’	8
Correction to: Grounding, conceivability, and the mind-body problem	8
Rigour versus the need for evidential diversity	8
What are mathematical diagrams?	8
Lightweight and heavyweight anti-physicalism	8
Frequentist statistical inference without repeated sampling	8
Inference to the best explanation as supporting the expansion of mathematicians’ ontological commitments	8
Worldview disagreement and subjective epistemic obligations	8
No practical reasons for belief: the epistemic significance of practical considerations	7
Counterfactuals, indeterminacy, and value: a puzzle	7
Robust passage phenomenology probably does not explain future-bias	7
Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience	7
The paradox paradox	6
Reasoning by grounded analogy	6
Quantum states: an analysis via the orthogonality relation	6
Communicating in contextual ignorance	6
Interests from and in conventions	6
The pragmatist domestication of Heidegger: Dreyfus on ‘skillful’ understanding	6
Arguments from scientific practice in the debate about the physical equivalence of symmetry-related models	6
Generics as instructions	6
Episodic memory and the feeling of pastness: from intentionalism to metacognition	6
Unsettledness in times of change	6
Many-valued logic and sequence arguments in value theory	6

Prejudiced beliefs based on the evidence: responding to a challenge for evidentialism	6
Refitting the mirrors: on structural analogies in epistemology and action theory	6
A new solution to the safety dilemma	5
Model robustness in economics: the admissibility and evaluation of tractability assumptions	5
Relativizing proportionality to a domain of events	5
Preventive and curative medical interventions	5
The physicality of representation	5
Perceptual capacities, discrimination, and the senses	5
Hans Reichenbach, radio philosopher: a preliminary report	5
Dualism all the way down: why there is no paradox of phenomenal judgment	5
Introspective knowledge by acquaintance	5
Inappropriate emotions, marginalization, and feeling better	5
A problem for extensional theories of time-consciousness	5
The semantic view of computation and the argument from the cognitive science practice	5
Spacetime: function and approximation	5
Wavefunction realism does not ‘privilege position’	5