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Since the implementation of experimental methods in philosophy, several philosophical disciplines are producing a fruitful body of research that has recently gained more recognition. Experimental Philosophy of Language (EPL) is one of the research topics that has drawn a great deal of attention lately. This chapter performs a bibliometric analysis of the EPL field in order to show the research trends, collaboration networks and topics structure that can be found in the literature. Techniques such as citation analysis, co-word occurrence analysis and clustering procedures are applied to identify significant research themes and publications from academic books and peer-reviewed research articles. This study uses quantitative analysis to explore the diverse practices of scholars working in the disciplinary community of EPL. The goal is to discover community-pattern trends within the field and investigate how they changed during the last years, as well as to provide information about the most-cited journals and academic editorial publication record. This analysis allows us to observe the research topics structure within the field, the most prolific authors and works and the collaboration degree among countries. This chapter aims to provide a comprehensive overview of EPL for those interested in one of the most prolific, empirically-driven trend in contemporary philosophy.
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For a detailed criticism on this idea, see Cappelen (2012).
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Regular expressions are formal expressions extensively used to process strings, i.e., sequences of characters (Mitkov, 2003).
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Some of the plots presented in this work were made with the bbplot R package (https://github.com/bbc/bbplot).
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Notice that with bigrams, the absolute frequency of expressions is lower than with unigrams.
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The research for this chapter was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (grant number FFI2017-87395-P).
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Osorio-Mancilla, J. (2023). A Bibliometric Analysis of Experimental Philosophy of Language. In: Bordonaba-Plou, D. (eds) Experimental Philosophy of Language: Perspectives, Methods, and Prospects. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28908-8_2
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