6.22 Ethics Of Belief

Keywords: duty, internalism, alston, internal, internalist, externalist, doxastic, seeing, epistemically, feldman, externalism, status, justification, project, epistemic

Number of articles: 52
Weighted number of articles: 50.77021

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ethics of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.76, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 5 in 1991, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.93: Raw number of articles in topic 22, ethics of belief.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ethics of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.75, and the median value is 0.42. It reaches a peak value of 3.9 in 1996, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.94: Weighted number of articles in topic 22, ethics of belief.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ethics of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.2%, and the median value is 0.1%. It reaches a peak value of 1.0% in 1996, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.95: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 22, ethics of belief.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic ethics of belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 2.1%, and the median value is 1.4%. It reaches a peak value of 9.1% in 1996, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.96: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 22, ethics of belief.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Richard Feldman, 2000, “The Ethics of Belief,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60:667–95.
  2. Charlotte Katzoff, 2000, “Counter-Evidence and the Duty to Critically Reflect,” Analysis 60:89–96.
  3. Alvin Plantinga, 1990, “Justification in the 20th Century,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 50:45–71.
  4. Stephen Cade Hetherington, 1991, “On Being Epistemically Internal,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51:855–71.
  5. Earl Conee, 2002, “Innocuous Infallibility,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64:406–8.
  6. Paul Tidman, 1996, “Critical Reflection: An Alleged Epistemic Duty,” Analysis 56:268–76.
  7. Alan Sidelle, 2002, “Innoculi Innocula,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64:409–11.
  8. Phil Goggans, 1991, “Epistemic Obligations and Doxastic Voluntarism,” Analysis 51:102–5.
  9. Kihyeon Kim, 1994, “The Deontological Conception of Epistemic Justification and Doxastic Voluntarism,” Analysis 54:282–4.
  10. Anthony Brueckner, 1996, “Deontologism and Internalism in Epistemology,” Noûs 30:527–36.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Richard Feldman, 2000, “The Ethics of Belief,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60:667–95. (0.8227865)