Value and News in Evidential Decision Theory
A discussion of what desirabilities in Jeffrey's theory of decision ultimately mean. Continue reading →
Thoughts, Arguments and Rants
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Absolute Value
An objection to the version of Desire as Belief that Stephen Daskall defended in "Absolute Value as Belief". Continue reading →
Over Time, Citations Get More Uneven
In an earlier post, I compared the distribution of citations within _Journal of Philosophy_, 1976 and _Philosophical Studies_, 2009. And I noted that although the two ended up in similar places, they got there in different ways. _Journal of Philosophy_ … Continue reading →
Citations are Getting More Evenly Distributed
I claimed yesterday that citations within journals are getting more egalitarian. To verify this, I pulled the citation data for two prominent years: The Journal of Philosophy, 1976 and Philosophical Studies, 2009. I couldn’t find an easy way to get … Continue reading →
Two More Graphs
Just as a follow up to the previous post, here are the graphs for six more journals. First their citations in the other 31. Then their citations in the whole of Web of Science Arts and Humanities. (Note that this … Continue reading →
Changes in Who is Cited
The dataset of citations I’m looking at starts in 1976. And I can break down not just which journals are cited, but which years of those journals are cited. (And which years they are cited in, but I’m setting aside … Continue reading →
Citation Graphs, One Journal at a Time
The big graphs I posted earlier have so much information, that much of it gets lost in the mess of lines. So I’ve broken down the data to create a graph just involving each journal’s interactions with the other 31. … Continue reading →
Citation Graphs and Methodology
Last week I posted some graphs showing how often various journals cite other journals. Here is one of those graphs, just to remind you what they looked like. I didn’t say particularly clearly how I got the data, or even … Continue reading →
Citations of History Journals
Yesterday I posted some data about how often journals cite other journals. And one of the things that jumped out was how rarely generalist journals cite various specialist journals. I suggested an inference from that: generalist journals are not as … Continue reading →
Citation Patterns Across Journals
I’ve been interested for a while in the different things that get attention in different philosophy journals. Part of what got me interested in this was looking at the ways that different well known articles get cited, or not, in … Continue reading →