6.5 Belief

Keywords: believed, believes, believing, believe, raining, rain, moore, disposition, mistaken, reasons, dispositions, inferential, proposition, reason, exist

Number of articles: 78
Weighted number of articles: 100.3354

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.1, and the median value is 1. It reaches a peak value of 4 in 1964, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1947.

Figure 6.25: Raw number of articles in topic 5, belief.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.43, and the median value is 1.46. It reaches a peak value of 3.38 in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.26: Weighted number of articles in topic 5, belief.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.4%, and the median value is 0.4%. It reaches a peak value of 0.8% in 2001, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.27: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 5, belief.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic belief each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 5.6%, and the median value is 5.0%. It reaches a peak value of 13.6% in 1967, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.28: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 5, belief.

Characteristic Articles

  1. John N. Williams, 2004, “Moore’s Paradoxes, Evans’s Principle and Self-Knowledge,” Analysis 64:348–53.
  2. Max Deutscher, 1967, “Bonney on Saying and Disbelieving,” Analysis 27:184–6.
  3. Hamid Vahid, 2005, “Moore’s Paradox and Evans’s Principle: A Reply to Williams,” Analysis 65:337–41.
  4. Bart Streumer, 2007, “Inferential and Non-Inferential Reasoning,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74:1–29.
  5. John Turri, 2010, “Refutation by Elimination,” Analysis 70:35–9.
  6. John N. Williams, 1981, “Inconsistency and Contradiction,” Mind 90:600–2.
  7. Harry J. Gensler, 1983, “Acting Commits One to Ethical Beliefs,” Analysis 43:40–3.
  8. Jonathan Harrison, 1984, “The Incorrigibility of the Cogito,” Mind 93:321–35.
  9. A. Phillips Griffiths and Donald McQueen, 1973, “Belief and Reasons for Belief,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Supplementary Volume) 47:53–86.
  10. Peter Cave, 2001, “Too Self-Fulfilling,” Analysis 61:141–6.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Robert Audi, 1994, “Dispositional Beliefs and Dispositions to Believe,” Noûs 28:419–34. (0.6170905)
  2. Krister Bykvist and Anandi Hattiangadi, 2007, “Does Thought Imply Ought?,” Analysis 67:277–85. (0.762648)
  3. R. B. Braithwaite, 1933, “The Nature of Believing,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 33:129–46. (0.6522711)