Michael D. Kirchhoff

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Michael D. Kirchhoff is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, History and Philosophy of Science and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael D. Kirchhoff has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 15 papers in History and Philosophy of Science and 14 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael D. Kirchhoff's work include Embodied and Extended Cognition (34 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (15 papers). Michael D. Kirchhoff is often cited by papers focused on Embodied and Extended Cognition (34 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (15 papers) and Philosophy and History of Science (15 papers). Michael D. Kirchhoff collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Michael D. Kirchhoff's co-authors include Julian Kiverstein, Karl Friston, Ensor Rafael Palacios, Thomas Parr, Daniel D. Hutto, Maxwell J. D. Ramstead, Tom Froese, Axel Constant, Dor Abrahamson and Erik Myin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Theoretical Biology, Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

In The Last Decade

Michael D. Kirchhoff

49 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference a... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 50 100 150 200
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Markov blankets of life: autonomy, active inference and the free energy principle
    2018 225 citations Michael D. Kirchhoff, Thomas Parr et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael D. Kirchhoff Australia 20 1.1k 453 211 204 173 50 1.5k
Maxwell J. D. Ramstead Canada 15 847 0.8× 354 0.8× 134 0.6× 147 0.7× 188 1.1× 21 1.2k
Jelle Bruineberg Netherlands 12 810 0.7× 365 0.8× 120 0.6× 113 0.6× 155 0.9× 26 1.1k
Kenneth Aizawa United States 17 817 0.7× 363 0.8× 272 1.3× 210 1.0× 321 1.9× 53 1.3k
Tom Froese Mexico 26 1.5k 1.4× 922 2.0× 128 0.6× 220 1.1× 292 1.7× 128 2.3k
Michael Wheeler United Kingdom 13 587 0.5× 336 0.7× 108 0.5× 126 0.6× 185 1.1× 50 882
Francesco Rigoli Italy 11 1.7k 1.5× 487 1.1× 103 0.5× 163 0.8× 358 2.1× 14 2.2k
Erik Myin Belgium 18 1.0k 0.9× 617 1.4× 136 0.6× 150 0.7× 326 1.9× 49 1.4k
Fred Adams United States 15 714 0.6× 315 0.7× 216 1.0× 389 1.9× 390 2.3× 43 1.1k
Gualtiero Piccinini United States 27 1.0k 0.9× 242 0.5× 692 3.3× 177 0.9× 462 2.7× 75 2.0k
Philipp Schwartenbeck United Kingdom 20 1.9k 1.7× 432 1.0× 120 0.6× 189 0.9× 525 3.0× 27 2.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kirchhoff, Michael D.. (2025). Idealization and mental fictionalism. Philosophical Psychology. 1–22.
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Kiverstein, Julian, Michael D. Kirchhoff, & Michael Thacker. (2022). An Embodied Predictive Processing Theory of Pain Experience. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 13(4). 973–998. 33 indexed citations
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Kiverstein, Julian, Michael D. Kirchhoff, & Tom Froese. (2022). The Problem of Meaning: The Free Energy Principle and Artificial Agency. Frontiers in Neurorobotics. 16. 844773–844773. 12 indexed citations
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Kiverstein, Julian, Michael D. Kirchhoff, & Michael Thacker. (2021). Why Pain Experience is not a Controlled Hallucination of the Body. PhilSci-Archive (University of Pittsburgh). 1 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D., et al.. (2021). A universal ethology challenge to the free energy principle: species of inference and good regulators. Biology & Philosophy. 36(2). 2 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D., et al.. (2021). Between pebbles and organisms: weaving autonomy into the Markov blanket. Synthese. 199(3-4). 6623–6644. 4 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D. & Julian Kiverstein. (2020). Attuning to the World: The Diachronic Constitution of the Extended Conscious Mind. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 1966–1966. 16 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D., et al.. (2019). Enactive social cognition: Diachronic constitution & coupled anticipation. Consciousness and Cognition. 70. 1–10. 11 indexed citations
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Ramstead, Maxwell J. D., Michael D. Kirchhoff, Axel Constant, & Karl Friston. (2019). Multiscale integration: beyond internalism and externalism. Synthese. 198(S1). 41–70. 54 indexed citations
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Palacios, Ensor Rafael, Adeel Razi, Thomas Parr, Michael D. Kirchhoff, & Karl Friston. (2019). On Markov blankets and hierarchical self-organisation. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 486. 110089–110089. 67 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D. & Julian Kiverstein. (2019). Extended Consciousness and Predictive Processing: A Third Wave View. Research Online (University of Wollongong). 25 indexed citations
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Hutto, Daniel D., et al.. (2018). A New, Better BET: Rescuing and Revising Basic Emotion Theory. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1217–1217. 24 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D., et al.. (2017). Breaking explanatory boundaries: flexible borders and plastic minds. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 18(1). 185–204. 2 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D. & Daniel D. Hutto. (2016). Never Mind the Gap: Neurophenomenology, Radical Enactivism, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness. Constructivist Foundations. 11(2). 346–353. 5 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D.. (2016). From mutual manipulation to cognitive extension: challenges and implications. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. 16(5). 863–878. 10 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D.. (2015). Experiential fantasies, prediction, and enactive minds. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 22. 68. 13 indexed citations
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Hutto, Daniel D., Michael D. Kirchhoff, & Dor Abrahamson. (2015). The Enactive Roots of STEM: Rethinking Educational Design in Mathematics. Educational Psychology Review. 27(3). 371–389. 64 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D., et al.. (2015). Dynamic Calibration of the Empirical Pore Pressure Estimation Methods Using MPD Data. Offshore Technology Conference. 18 indexed citations
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Hutto, Daniel D., Michael D. Kirchhoff, & Erik Myin. (2014). Extensive enactivism: why keep it all in?. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8. 706–706. 45 indexed citations
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Kirchhoff, Michael D.. (2009). Material Agency. Techné Research in Philosophy and Technology. 13(3). 206–220. 12 indexed citations

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