6.9 Evidence

Keywords: evidence, evidential, total, evident, adequate, black, bad, harman, subjects, williamson, ball, intuitive, support, inferential, accounts

Number of articles: 37
Weighted number of articles: 45.14674

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic evidence each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.53, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 2 in 1964, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.41: Raw number of articles in topic 9, evidence.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic evidence each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.65, and the median value is 0.5. It reaches a peak value of 1.99 in 2012, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1950.

Figure 6.42: Weighted number of articles in topic 9, evidence.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic evidence each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.2%, and the median value is 0.1%. It reaches a peak value of 0.5% in 2012, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.43: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 9, evidence.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic evidence each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 2.4%, and the median value is 2.2%. It reaches a peak value of 7.4% in 1964, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1950.

Figure 6.44: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 9, evidence.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Matthew Kennedy, 2011, “Naïve Realism, Privileged Access, and Epistemic Safety,” Noûs 45:77–102.
  2. Jessica Brown, 2013, “Infallibilism, Evidence and Pragmatics,” Analysis 73:626–35.
  3. Richard Foley and Richard Fumerton, 1984, “Epistemic Indolence: A Reply to Schmitt,” Mind 93:108–10.
  4. Timothy Williamson, 1997, “Knowledge as Evidence,” Mind 106:717–41.
  5. Ram Neta, 2008, “What Evidence Do You Have?,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 59:89–119.
  6. Timothy Williamson, 2000, “Scepticism and Evidence,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 60:613–28.
  7. Gail J. Fine, 1979, “Knowledge and Logos in the Theaetetus,” Philosophical Review 88:366–97.
  8. Lory Lemke, 1986, “Kvanvig and Swain on the Basing Relation,” Analysis 46:138–44.
  9. Alexander Bird, 2004, “Is Evidence Non-Inferential?,” The Philosophical Quarterly 54:252–65.
  10. Fred Feldman and Herbert Heidelberger, 1973, “Tormey on Access and Incorrigibility,” Journal of Philosophy 70:297–8.

Highly Cited Articles

  1. Stephen P. Stich, 1978, “Beliefs and Subdoxastic States,” Philosophy of Science 45:499–518. (0.5002157)