6.16 Experts

Keywords: experts, socrates, expert, report, george, credibility, authority, acceptable, prefer, matters, practice, counter, aesthetic, power, position

Number of articles: 37
Weighted number of articles: 28.33926

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic experts each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.53, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 3 in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.69: Raw number of articles in topic 16, experts.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic experts each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.41, and the median value is 0.25. It reaches a peak value of 1.82 in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.70: Weighted number of articles in topic 16, experts.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic experts each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.1%. It reaches a peak value of 0.5% in 1982, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.71: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 16, experts.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic experts each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.6%, and the median value is 1.0%. It reaches a peak value of 11.2% in 1960, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.72: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 16, experts.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Michael Welbourne, 1983, “A Cognitive Thoroughfare,” Mind 92:410–2.
  2. Gregory Vlastos, 1982, “The Socratic Elenchus,” Journal of Philosophy 79:711–4.
  3. James W. Cornman, 1978, “On the Certainty of Reports About What is Given,” Noûs 12:93–118.
  4. John Hardwig, 1985, “Epistemic Dependence,” Journal of Philosophy 82:335–49.
  5. Sven Rosenkranz, 2007, “Agnosticism as a Third Stance,” Mind 116:55–104.
  6. Fred I. Dretske, 1982, “A Cognitive Cul-De-Sac,” Mind 91:109–11.
  7. Alvin I. Goldman, 2001, “Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63:85–110.
  8. Gregory Vlastos, 1985, “Socrates’ Disavowal of Knowledge,” The Philosophical Quarterly 35:1–31.
  9. Jonathan E. Adler, 2009, “Resisting the Force of Argument,” Journal of Philosophy 106:339–64.
  10. Stephen John, 2011, “Expert Testimony and Epistemological Free-Riding: The Mmr Controversy,” The Philosophical Quarterly 61:496–517.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Alvin I. Goldman, 2001, “Experts: Which Ones Should You Trust?,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63:85–110. (0.7750365)
  2. Miranda Fricker, 1998, “Rational Authority and Social Power: Towards a Truly Social Epistemology,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 98:159–77. (0.5251558)
  3. Peter J. Graham, 1997, “What is Testimony?,” The Philosophical Quarterly 47:227–32. (0.362016)