6.34 Bootstrapping

Keywords: gauge, conservatism, bootstrapping, reliabilism, confirmation, reliabilist, group, reliable, threshold, feldman, blue, entailment, step, full, puzzle

Number of articles: 31
Weighted number of articles: 22.00688

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic bootstrapping each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.46, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 4 in 2008, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.141: Raw number of articles in topic 34, bootstrapping.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic bootstrapping each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.32, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 3.32 in 2012, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.142: Weighted number of articles in topic 34, bootstrapping.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic bootstrapping each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 0.8% in 2012, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.143: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 34, bootstrapping.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic bootstrapping each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.8%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 5.2% in 1975, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.144: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 34, bootstrapping.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Luc Bovens and José Luis Ferreira, 2010, “Monty Hall Drives a Wedge Between Judy Benjamin and the Sleeping Beauty: A Reply to Bovens,” Analysis 70:473–81.
  2. Stephen Spielman, 1975, “Levi on Personalism and Revisionism,” Journal of Philosophy 72:785–93.
  3. H. W. Noonan, 1980, “Relative Identity: A Reply to Nicholas Griffin,” Mind 89:96–8.
  4. Luc Bovens, 1995, ““P and I Will Believe that not-P”: Diachronic Constraints on Rational Belief,” Mind 104:737–60.
  5. Jonathan E. Adler, 1990, “Conservatism and Tacit Confirmation,” Mind 99:559–70.
  6. Hilary Kornblith, 2009, “A Reliabilist Solution to the Problem of Promiscuous Bootstrapping,” Analysis 69:263–7.
  7. John Turri, 2012, “A Puzzle About Withholding,” The Philosophical Quarterly 62:355–64.
  8. Jonathan E. Adler, 2012, “Pragmatic Encroachment, Methods and Contextualism,” Analysis 72:526–34.
  9. Jonathan Weisberg, 2010, “Bootstrapping in General,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 81:525–48.
  10. Roy Sorensen, 2010, “Knowledge-Lies,” Analysis 70:608–15.