6.35 Epistemic Modals

Keywords: zif, supposition, semantics, raining, modal, supposed, stalnaker, compatible, semantic, possibilities, statements, acts, clause, utterance, evaluation

Number of articles: 23
Weighted number of articles: 21.47218

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic epistemic modals each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.32, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 4 in 2013, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.145: Raw number of articles in topic 35, epistemic modals.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic epistemic modals each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.31, and the median value is 0.05. It reaches a peak value of 3.35 in 2009, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.146: Weighted number of articles in topic 35, epistemic modals.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic epistemic modals 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 2009, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.147: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 35, epistemic modals.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic epistemic modals each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.8%, and the median value is 0.2%. It reaches a peak value of 9.4% in 1960, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.148: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 35, epistemic modals.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Anthony S. Gillies, 2004, “Epistemic Conditionals and Conditional Epistemics,” Noûs 38:585–616.
  2. K. Derose, 1998, “Simple ’Might’s, Indicative Possibilities and the Open Future,” The Philosophical Quarterly 48:67–82.
  3. Cian Dorr and John Hawthorne, 2013, “Embedding Epistemic Modals,” Mind 122:867–913.
  4. Benjamin Schnieder, 2010, “Expressivism Concerning Epistemic Modals,” The Philosophical Quarterly 60:601–15.
  5. Roy Sorensen, 2009, “Meta-Agnosticism: Higher Order Epistemic Possibility,” Mind 118:777–84.
  6. David Barnett, 2010, “zif Would Have Been If: A Suppositional View of Counterfactuals,” Noûs 44:269–304.
  7. David Barnett, 2006, “Zif is if,” Mind 115:519–65.
  8. David Barnett, 2009, “Yalcin on ‘Might’,” Mind 118:771–5.
  9. Seth Yalcin, 2007, “Epistemic Modals,” Mind 116:983–1026.
  10. Seth Yalcin, 2009, “More on Epistemic Modals,” Mind 118:785–93.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Seth Yalcin, 2007, “Epistemic Modals,” Mind 116:983–1026. (0.9925313)
  2. Kai Von Fintel and Anthony S. Gillies, 2008, “Cia Leaks,” Philosophical Review 117:77–98. (0.4499682)
  3. Johan Van Benthem, 2004, “What One May Come to Know,” Analysis 64:95–105. (0.2983386)