6.28 Desires

Keywords: desires, desire, lottery, ticket, prob, lose, win, objects, defend, credence, satisfied, space, credences, bayesian, finite

Number of articles: 29
Weighted number of articles: 27.19823

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic desires each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.43, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 3 in 2010, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.117: Raw number of articles in topic 28, desires.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic desires each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.4, and the median value is 0.05. It reaches a peak value of 2.29 in 2011, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.118: Weighted number of articles in topic 28, desires.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic desires each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 0.5% in 2012, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.119: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 28, desires.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic desires each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.1%, and the median value is 0.2%. It reaches a peak value of 5.0% in 1989, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.120: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 28, desires.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Mark Kaplan, 1981, “A Bayesian Theory of Rational Acceptance,” Journal of Philosophy 78:305–30.
  2. Storrs McCall and D. M. Armstrong, 1989, “God’s Lottery,” Analysis 49:223–4.
  3. David J. Chalmers, 2011, “Revisability and Conceptual Change in”Two Dogmas of Empiricism”,” Journal of Philosophy 108:387–415.
  4. J. W. Roxbee Cox, 1985, “Utilitarians and the Use of Examples,” Ethics 95:268–73.
  5. Martin Smith, 2010, “A Generalised Lottery Paradox for Infinite Probability Spaces,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 61:821–31.
  6. Graham Oddie, 1994, “Harmony, Purity, Truth,” Mind 103:451–72.
  7. Kris McDaniel and Ben Bradley, 2008, “Desires,” Mind 117:267–302.
  8. Igor Douven, 2012, “The Sequential Lottery Paradox,” Analysis 72:55–7.
  9. David Gordon, 1984, “Gillespie on Singer’s Generalization Argument,” Ethics 95:75–7.
  10. David J. Chalmers, 2011, “Frege’s Puzzle and the Objects of Credence,” Mind 120:587–635.