OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Topoi-An International Review of Philosophy 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Stop Doubting with Descartes	79
Beyond Right Choices: The Art of Wise Decision Making	50
The Name-Notion Network: On How to Conciliate Two Approaches to Naming and Reference-Fixing	36
Intrinsic Responsibility for Rule-Following	25
Nonexistent Objects and Their Semantic and Ontological Dependence on Referential Acts	25
Engineering Disputed Concepts and the Meeting of Minds	22
A Republican Approach to Jerkish Speech on Online Platforms	21
Caring About Our Own Epistemic Capacities qua Responsible Citizens	21
What Absurdity Is Not in Natural Deduction: Structural Approach and the Empty Set	18
Radical Embodied Cognition as Non-ideal Theory	18
On the Ambiguity of Images and Particularity of Imaginings	15
Representations, Models, and Rules	14
Handmade Therapy: The Hedonic Impacts of Engaging in Pottery Making	14
Critical Realism and Technocracy – RW Sellars’ Radical Philosophy in its Context	13
Shared Attention as a Revelatory Practice	13
The Practical Unity of Practical Wisdom	12
Exemplary Arguers (for Example, in Law)	11
Psychology, Equality, and the Forgetting of Motivations	10
Scaffolded Agents, for Better or Worse: Assessing the Formative Aspect of Scaffolding	10
Faces and situational Agency	10
Enacting Ought: Ethics, Anti-Racism, and Interactional Possibilities	10
A Cracovian Debate Cooperative Debate Format Based on the Dialectical Principle of Charity	9
Reframing the Non-Human Gaze: Art, Literature, and AI’s Challenge to Anthropocentrism	9
Rethinking Virtue in Legal Decision-Making: A Perspective from Virtue Argumentation Theory	9
From Semantic Deference to Semantic Externalism to Metasemantic Disagreement	9

The Ethical Paradox of Automation: AI Moral Status as a Challenge to the End of Human Work	9
Arguably Better: Eudaimonist Virtues of Argumentation	8
Agamemnon at Aulis: On the Right and Wrong Sorts of Imaginative Identification	8
Mathematical Practice, Fictionalism and Social Ontology	8
Should we Trust Our Feeds? Social Media, Misinformation, and the Epistemology of Testimony	8
Naturalism, Supernaturalism, and the Question of God	7
Phronesis and Empathy: Allies or Opponents?	7
Hegel and Wittgenstein on Difficulties of Beginning at the Beginning	7
Defining Communication and Language from Within a Pluralistic Evolutionary Worldview	7
Phronesis and Emotion: The Skill Model of Wisdom Developed	7
The Problem of Reindividuation and Money-Pump Arguments: Analysis of Mamou’s Solution	7
Indeterminate Meaning: A Temporally Extended Radical Conventionalism of Rule-Following	7
Digital Slot Machines: Social Media Platforms as Attentional Scaffolds	7
How Normativity Shaped Human Communication: A Hearer-Oriented Approach	7
Arguments and Speech Acts Reconsidered	6
Levinas’ Otherness: An Ethical Dimension for Enactive Sociality	6
Loneliness as a Closure of the Affordance Space: The Case of COVID-19 Pandemic	6
A Critical Pragmatic Account of Prosaic and Poetic Metaphors	6
On the Permissibility of Distorting a Rival View: Important Exceptions to the Principle of Charity	6
Exploring Reading as a Social Practice with Gibson and Goodwin	6
Critical Pragmatics: Nine Misconceptions	6
The Making of Pragma-Dialectics: A Synopsis	6
The Paradoxical Nature of Older Adult Embodiment	6
Introduction: What’s so Special About Faces? Visages at the Crossroad Between Philosophy, Semiotics and Cognition	6
Varieties of Metalinguistic Negotiation	6
The Tacitly Situated Self: From Narration to Sedimentation and Projection	6
Ethics of Extinction: Humean Sentimentalism and the Value of the Human Species	6
Introduction: Moral Exemplarism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives	5
Of Marriage and Mathematics: Inferentialism and Social Ontology	5
Assistive Technology as Affective Scaffolding	5
Abhorrent Slurs and Laudable Pejoratives: An Estonian Case Study of the Space Between	5
Decolonizing AI Ethics: Relational Autonomy as a Means to Counter AI Harms	5
Emotional Environments: Selective Permeability, Political Affordances and Normative Settings	5
Introduction: The Formation of the Moral Point of View—The Legacy of Bernard Williams Twenty Years after His Passing	5
One with Nature, One with Each Other? A Niche Construction Framework Linking Rituals, Social Media and Nature Connectedness	5
What Can Discourse Do?	5
A Constructivist Account of Political Normativity	5
Reflexive Charity and the Peirce Problem as a Meta-Argumentative Pathology	4
Enactivizing dialectics: from individual to social normativity and back	4
Introduction: Scaffolding Bad - Varieties of Situated Cognitive Harm	4
Correction: Introduction: The Formation of the Moral Point of View—The Legacy of Bernard Williams Twenty Years after His Passing	4
Characterization Frames Constructing Endoxa in Activists’ Discourse About the Public Controversy Surrounding Fashion Sustainability	4
Scaffolding Bad Moral Agents	4
Beyond Reasonableness: Argumentative Virtues in Pragma-Dialectics	4
On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies	4
Against Cooperation: Or Why Telic/Functional Explanations Do Not Account for the Evolution of Rule-Following	4
Three Rich-Lexicon Theories of Slurs: A Comparison	4
The Enigma of Normative Attitudes	4
Material Dependence and Kant’s Refutation of Idealism	4
The Transformative Power of Virtual Reality: Redefining Interactions in Virtual Platforms, Education, Healthcare, and Workplaces	4

Joint Attention: The PAIR Account	4
The Justification of Charity: A Pragmatist Approach	4
Narrative Railroading	4
Sympathy, Interpersonal Awareness and Acknowledgment	4
Introduction: Direct Realism – Historical and Systematic Perspectives	4
Untimely Reviews	3
What Matters to Others: A High-Threshold Account of Joint Attention	3
Thick Narratives and the Value of Minor Details	3
Flourishing Goals, Metacognitive Skills, and the Virtue of Wisdom	3
The Topoi they are A-Changin’	3
Mental Coordinative Structures: Situating Mental States within Radically Embodied Approaches to Cognition	3
Correction: Introduction: Language and Worldviews	3
A Late Antique Rabbinic Discourse on the Linguistic (In-)determinacy of the Law	3
Humean Sentimentalism, Sentimentalist Antinatalism, and the Metaphysics of Procreation	3
How Much of Your Self Do You Need to Imagine Being Someone Else?	3
Introduction: Affectivity and Technology - Philosophical Explorations	3
Some Potential Problems with Implicit Bias Interventions Qua Indirect Prejudice Interventions	3
Solving the Authority Problem: Why We Won’t Debate You, Bro	3
Why Practical Wisdom Cannot be Eliminated	3
Bridging the Fact/Value Divide in Wisdom Research: The Development of Expertise in Wise Decision-Making	3
Disabling Scaffolds: The Lived Embodiment of Disability in an Oppressive Sociomaterial Environment	3
Correction to: Enacting Ought: Ethics, Anti-Racism, and Interactional Possibilities	3
What is conceptual hypocrisy? Is it problematic?	3
Must Skepticism Remain Refuted? Inheriting Skepticism with Cavell and Levinas	3
Hermeneutical Injustice Through Defective Concept Possession	3
Are Works of Art Affective Artifacts? If Not, What Sort of Artifacts Are They?	3
The Myth of Interiority (Le Psychologue Malgré Lui)	3
Therapeutic Chatbots as Cognitive-Affective Artifacts	3
Rejection as a Ground of Our Obedience to the Rules of Logic	3
Political Normativity… All-Things-Considered	3
Dispositional Rifts: Toward a Marxist Analysis of Habit	3
Elected Extremists, Political Communication and the Limits of Containment	3
Russell and American Realism	3
A Competence-based Approach To the Principle of Charity in Argument Reconstruction	2
Scaffolding and Individuality in Early Childhood Development	2
Williams for and Against. Politics as a Constitutively Normative Practice	2
What is Political Moralism?	2
What We Do and Don’t Know About Joint Attention	2
Applying Charity in Discussion: The Path of a Charitable Opponent	2
Correction: C.S. Peirce on Mathematical Practice: Objectivity and the Community of Inquirers	2
A Positively Relaxed Take on Naturalism: Reasons to be Relaxed but not too Liberal	2
Externalism and the Myth of the Given	2
What Can Epistemic Normativity Tell us About Politics? Ideology, Power, and the Epistemology of Radical Realism	2
Introduction: Truthmaker Semantics: What, What For, and How?	2
Regulated Empathy and Future Generations	2
Argument Interpretation and the Implicit Side of Enthymemes, Beyond and Before the Charity Principle	2
Real Feeling and Fictional Time in Human-AI Interactions	2
Charity Versus Knowledge Maximization	2
But is it Charity?	2
Can There be Thought Without Words?—Donald Davidson on Language and Animal Minds	2
Introduction: Rule-Following – Between Nature and Culture	2
Is Epistemic Autonomy Technologically Possible Within Social Media? A Socio-Epistemological Investigation of the Epistemic Opacity of Social Media Platforms	2
Narrative Dead-Ends Down Memory Lane	2
Assertion, Lying and the Norm of Truth	2
Deliberative Democracy and Pragma-Dialectics Related	2
Valuing the “Afterlife”	2
Aquinas on the Intentionality of Memory	2
Anti-Representationalism, Naturalism, and Placement Metaphysics	2
Does Using Technological Devices Motivate Older Adults to Engage in Physical Activities? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	2
Introduction: Language and Worldviews	2
The Truth in Social Media	2
Clarifying the Virtue Profile of the Good Thinker: An Interdisciplinary Approach	2
The Inferential Meaning of Controversial Terms: The Case of “Terrorism”	2
What if Vulcan Does not Exist? A Discussion of Cococo‑Reference Proposal and Mythical Name	2
Algorithmic Nudging: The Need for an Interdisciplinary Oversight	2
Beyond Corporate Social Media Platforms: The Epistemic Promises and Perils of Alternative Social Media	2
Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy: On the Ethical Dimension of Recommender Systems	2
Narrative Identity and Creative Writing: Crafting and Imagining Possible Lives	2
Introduction: A Critical Eye on Critical Pragmatics	2
The Experience of Affordances in an Intersubjective World	2
Does Empathy Reduce Implicit Bias? A Critical Review	2
On Artificial Intelligence and Manipulation	2
Correction: Decolonizing AI Ethics: Relational Autonomy as a Means to Counter AI Harms	2
Attending Together in Digital Environments	2
Being at One: a Philosophical Anthropology of Solitude	2
Non-Speaker-Oriented Expressives in Ktunaxa	2