6.37 Sleeping Beauty

Keywords: sleeping, beauty, heads, monday, toss, coin, tails, ball, times, outcome, procedure, white, credence, small, evil

Number of articles: 49
Weighted number of articles: 47.20837

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic sleeping beauty each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.72, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 5 in 2004, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.153: Raw number of articles in topic 37, sleeping beauty.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic sleeping beauty each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.69, and the median value is 0.09. It reaches a peak value of 4.56 in 2009, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.154: Weighted number of articles in topic 37, sleeping beauty.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic sleeping beauty each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.2%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 1.0% in 2009, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.155: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 37, sleeping beauty.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic sleeping beauty each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.6%, and the median value is 0.3%. It reaches a peak value of 9.1% in 2004, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.156: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 37, sleeping beauty.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Ruth Weintraub, 2004, “Sleeping Beauty: A Simple Solution,” Analysis 64:8–10.
  2. Hannes Leitgeb, 2010, “Sleeping Beauty and Eternal Recurrence,” Analysis 70:203–5.
  3. Darren Bradley, 2003, “Sleeping Beauty: A Note on Dorr’s Argument for 13,” Analysis 63:266–8.
  4. David Papineau and Víctor Dura-Vilà, 2009, “Reply to Lewis: Metaphysics Versus Epistemology,” Analysis 69:89–91.
  5. Adam Elga, 2000, “Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem,” Analysis 60:143–7.
  6. Roger White, 2006, “The Generalized Sleeping Beauty Problem: A Challenge for Thirders,” Analysis 66:114–9.
  7. Peter J. Lewis, 2007, “Quantum Sleeping Beauty,” Analysis 67:59–65.
  8. David Papineau and Victor Dura-Vila, 2009, “A Thirder and an Everettian: A Reply to Lewis’s ’ Quantum Sleeping Beauty’,” Analysis 69:78–86.
  9. Darren Bradley, 2012, “Four Problems About Self-Locating Belief,” Philosophical Review 121:149–77.
  10. Michael G. Titelbaum, 2008, “The Relevance of Self-Locating Beliefs,” Philosophical Review 117:555–605.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Adam Elga, 2000, “Self-Locating Belief and the Sleeping Beauty Problem,” Analysis 60:143–7. (0.9980371)
  2. David Lewis, 2001, “Sleeping Beauty: Reply to Elga,” Analysis 61:171–6. (0.969058)