6.14 Assertion

Keywords: chisholm, assertions, assertion, disposition, statistical, asserting, reasonable, assert, criticism, lottery, evident, ticket, requires, lose, law

Number of articles: 37
Weighted number of articles: 31.37706

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic assertion each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.51, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 5 in 2013, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.61: Raw number of articles in topic 14, assertion.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic assertion each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.45, and the median value is 0.17. It reaches a peak value of 3.35 in 2013, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.62: Weighted number of articles in topic 14, assertion.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic assertion each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 0.8% in 2013, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.63: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 14, assertion.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic assertion each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.4%, and the median value is 0.8%. It reaches a peak value of 6.6% in 1959, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.64: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 14, assertion.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Peter Unger, 1971, “A Defense of Skepticism,” Philosophical Review 80:198–219.
  2. Martin Smith, 2010, “What Else Justification Could be,” Noûs 44:10–31.
  3. Clayton Littlejohn, 2009, “Must We Act Only on What We Know?,” Journal of Philosophy 106:463–73.
  4. Aidan McGlynn, 2013, “Believing Things Unknown,” Noûs 47:385–407.
  5. Charlie Pelling, 2013, “Assertion and the Provision of Knowledge,” The Philosophical Quarterly 63:293–312.
  6. Niko Kolodny, 2008, “Why be Disposed to be Coherent?,” Ethics 118:437–63.
  7. Herbert Heidelberger, 1963, “On Defining Epistemic Expressions,” Journal of Philosophy 60:344–8.
  8. David Enoch, Levi Spectre and Talia Fisher, 2012, “Statistical Evidence, Sensitivity, and the Legal Value of Knowledge,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 40:197–224.
  9. John Turri, 2010, “Prompting Challenges,” Analysis 70:456–62.
  10. Jennifer Lackey, 2007, “Norms of Assertion,” Noûs 41:594–626.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. John Hawthorne and Jason Stanley, 2008, “Knowledge and Action,” Journal of Philosophy 105:571–90. (0.2955199)
  2. Timothy Williamson, 1996, “Knowing and Asserting,” Philosophical Review 105:489–523. (0.5103286)
  3. Jennifer Lackey, 2007, “Norms of Assertion,” Noûs 41:594–626. (0.9998844)