6.8 Scepticism

Keywords: sceptic, scepticism, sceptical, realism, hume, exist, laws, arguments, realist, humean, existence, history, modal, global, law

Number of articles: 34
Weighted number of articles: 45.31089

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic scepticism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.5, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 3 in 1979, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.37: Raw number of articles in topic 8, scepticism.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic scepticism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.66, and the median value is 0.56. It reaches a peak value of 2.49 in 1981, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.38: Weighted number of articles in topic 8, scepticism.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic scepticism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.2%, and the median value is 0.1%. It reaches a peak value of 0.7% in 1981, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.39: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 8, scepticism.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic scepticism each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 2.3%, and the median value is 1.7%. It reaches a peak value of 10.0% in 1975, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.40: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 8, scepticism.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Zoltán Gendler Szabó, 2003, “Believing in Things,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66:584–611.
  2. Nicholas Everitt, 1981, “A Problem for the Eliminative Materialist,” Mind 90:428–34.
  3. Kieron O’Hara, 1993, “Sceptical Overkill: On Two Recent Arguments Against Scepticism,” Mind 102:315–27.
  4. John Earman and John T. Roberts, 2005, “Contact with the Nomic: A Challenge for Deniers of Humean Supervenience About Laws of Nature. Part Ii: The Epistemological Argument for Humean Supervenience,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71:253–86.
  5. Eliot Michaelson, 2012, “Justice for Unicorns,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 112:351–60.
  6. Alan Bailey, 1990, “Pyrrhonean Scepticism and the Self-Refutation Argument,” The Philosophical Quarterly 40:27–44.
  7. Jennifer Smalligan Marušić, 2012, “Refuting the Whole System? Hume’s Attack on Popular Religion in”The Natural History of Religion”,” The Philosophical Quarterly 62:715–36.
  8. Sonia Roca-Royes, 2011, “Conceivability and”De Re” Modal Knowledge,” Noûs 45:22–49.
  9. Ward E. Jones, 2000, “Can We Infer Naturalism from Scepticism?,” The Philosophical Quarterly 50:433–51.
  10. Raymond Martin, 1981, “Beyond Positivism: A Research Program for Philosophy of History,” Philosophy of Science 48:112–21.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Duncan Pritchard, 2005, “The Structure of Sceptical Arguments,” The Philosophical Quarterly 55:37–52. (0.3948581)