6.19 Perception

Keywords: justify, justification, experience, prima, facie, experiences, justified, perceptual, perception, priori, appears, empirical, criterion, red, basic

Number of articles: 69
Weighted number of articles: 81.09984

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic perception each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.01, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 8 in 1996, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.81: Raw number of articles in topic 19, perception.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic perception each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.19, and the median value is 0.76. It reaches a peak value of 5.42 in 1996, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.82: Weighted number of articles in topic 19, perception.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic perception each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.3%, and the median value is 0.2%. It reaches a peak value of 1.4% in 1996, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.83: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 19, perception.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic perception each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 3.8%, and the median value is 3.1%. It reaches a peak value of 15.9% in 1988, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.84: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 19, perception.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Laurence Bonjour, 1988, “Reply to Moser,” Analysis 48:164–5.
  2. Robert Audi, 1988, “Justification, Truth, and Reliability,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 49:1–29.
  3. William P. Alston, 1986, “Epistemic Circularity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47:1–30.
  4. Peter J. Markie, 2006, “Epistemically Appropriate Perceptual Belief,” Noûs 40:118–42.
  5. Miriam Solomon, 1990, “Apriority and Metajustification in Bonjour’s Structure of Empirical Knowledge,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50:767–77.
  6. Richard A. Fumerton, 1988, “Foundationalism, Conceptual Regress, and Reliabilism,” Analysis 48:178–84.
  7. John L. Pollock, 1971, “Perceptual Knowledge,” Philosophical Review 80:287–319.
  8. Laurence Bonjour, 2004, “In Search of Direct Realism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69:349–67.
  9. Michael Huemer, 2007, “Compassionate Phenomenal Conservatism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74:30–55.
  10. Alan H. Goldman, 1978, “Visual Belief,” Noûs 12:317–28.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. James Pryor, 2000, “The Skeptic and the Dogmatist,” Noûs 34:517–49. (0.4810693)
  2. William P. Alston, 1986, “Epistemic Circularity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47:1–30. (0.7473915)