6.12 Degree Of Belief

Keywords: confidence, partial, degrees, threshold, degree, confident, consistency, book, story, talk, greater, inquiry, measure, small, little

Number of articles: 29
Weighted number of articles: 32.54497

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic degree of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.43, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 3 in 2013, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.53: Raw number of articles in topic 12, degree of belief.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic degree of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.48, and the median value is 0.28. It reaches a peak value of 2.9 in 2013, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.54: Weighted number of articles in topic 12, degree of belief.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic degree of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.1%. It reaches a peak value of 0.7% in 2013, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.55: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 12, degree of belief.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic degree of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.5%, and the median value is 1.0%. It reaches a peak value of 5.6% in 1965, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.56: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 12, degree of belief.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Daniel Hunter, 1996, “On the Relation Between Categorical and Probabilistic Belief,” Noûs 30:75–98.
  2. Richard Foley, 1992, “Being Knowingly Incoherent,” Noûs 26:181–203.
  3. Rosanna Keefe, 2003, “Unsolved Problems with Numbers: Reply to Smith,” Mind 112:291–3.
  4. Mark Eli Kalderon, 2009, “Epistemic Relativism,” Philosophical Review 118:225–40.
  5. Nick Treanor, 2013, “The Measure of Knowledge,” Noûs 47:577–601.
  6. Patrick Hawley, 2008, “Moral Absolutism Defended,” Journal of Philosophy 105:273–5.
  7. David-Hillel Ruben, 1992, “Simple Attentive Miscalculation,” Analysis 52:184–90.
  8. Adam Morton, 1984, “Comparatives and Degrees,” Analysis 44:16–20.
  9. L. Jonathan Cohen, 1989, “What Use are Beliefs that We Do not Take to be Warranted?,” Analysis 49:7–8.
  10. Mark Kaplan, 2013, “Coming to Terms with Our Human Fallibility: Christensen on the Preface,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 87:1–35.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. D. C. Makinson, 1965, “The Paradox of the Preface,” Analysis 25:205–7. (0.4123133)