Diachronic trends in the topic distributions of formal epistemology abstracts.
Formal epistemology is a growing field of philosophical research. It is also evolving, with the subject matter of formal epistemology papers changing considerably over the past two decades. To quantify the ways in which formal epistemology is changing, I generate a stochastic block topic model of th...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 200; no. 1; pp. 1 - 35 |
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Feb2022
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