6.11 Rationality

Keywords: rationality, irrational, rational, james, rationally, opinion, current, future, reflection, goals, attitudes, goal, attitude, opinions, strategy

Number of articles: 42
Weighted number of articles: 49.36313

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic rationality each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.59, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 5 in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.49: Raw number of articles in topic 11, rationality.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic rationality each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.7, and the median value is 0.55. It reaches a peak value of 3.79 in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.50: Weighted number of articles in topic 11, rationality.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic rationality each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.2%, and the median value is 0.1%. It reaches a peak value of 0.9% in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.51: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 11, rationality.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic rationality each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 2.8%, and the median value is 1.7%. It reaches a peak value of 18.1% in 1960, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.52: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 11, rationality.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Leon Pearl, 1960, “Religious and Secular Beliefs,” Mind 69:408–12.
  2. Richard Foley, 1989, “Reply to Moser,” Analysis 49:89–92.
  3. Jared S. Moore and Dickinson S. Miller, 1943, “James’s Doctrine of”The Right to Believe”,” Philosophical Review 52:69–70.
  4. David Pickles, 1995, “Holton on Attitude Ascriptions and Intermediate Scope,” Mind 104:577–82.
  5. Gershon Weiler, 1962, “How Rational is Religious Belief?,” The Philosophical Quarterly 12:172–7.
  6. Stephen L. Nathanson, 1982, “Nonevidential Reasons for Belief: A Jamesian View,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 42:572–80.
  7. Richard Holton, 1995, “Sources and Leapfrogging: Reply to Pickles,” Mind 104:583–4.
  8. Richard Feldman, 1988, “Rationality, Reliability, and Natural Selection,” Philosophy of Science 55:218–27.
  9. Richard Foley, 1994, “How Should Future Opinion Affect Current Opinion?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54:747–66.
  10. David Christensen, 2000, “Diachronic Coherence Versus Epistemic Impartiality,” Philosophical Review 109:349–71.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Guy Kahane, 2011, “Evolutionary Debunking Arguments,” Noûs 45:103–25. (0.3706263)