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Atkinson, David.

Fading foundationsprobability and the regress problem /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Fading foundationsby David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg.
Reminder of title:	probability and the regress problem /
Author:	Atkinson, David.
other author:	Peijnenburg, Jeanne.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017.
Description:	xi, 238 p. :digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Knowledge, Theory of.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5
ISBN:	9783319582955$q(electronic bk.)

Fading foundationsprobability and the regress problem /
Atkinson, David.

Fading foundationsprobability and the regress problem /[electronic resource] :by David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2017. - xi, 238 p. :digital ;24 cm. - Synthese library ;v.383. - Synthese library ;v.344..

1. The Regress Problem -- 2. Epistemic Justification -- 3. The Probabilistic Regress -- 4. Fading Foundations and the Emergence of Justification -- 5 Finite Minds -- 6. Conceptual Objections -- 7. Higher-Order Probabilities -- 8. Loops and Networks.

Open access.

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can we ever come to know something if knowing requires having good reasons, and reasons can only be good if they are backed by good reasons in turn? The problem has puzzled philosophers ever since antiquity, giving rise to what is often called Agrippa's Trilemma. The current volume approaches the old problem in a provocative and thoroughly contemporary way. Taking seriously the idea that good reasons are typically probabilistic in character, it develops and defends a new solution that challenges venerable philosophical intuitions and explains why they were mistakenly held. Key to the new solution is the phenomenon of fading foundations, according to which distant reasons are less important than those that are nearby. The phenomenon takes the sting out of Agrippa's Trilemma; moreover, since the theory that describes it is general and abstract, it is readily applicable outside epistemology, notably to debates on infinite regresses in metaphysics. The book is a potential game-changer and a must for any advanced student or researcher in the field.

ISBN: 9783319582955$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

178850
Knowledge, Theory of.

LC Class. No.: BD161 / .A85 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 111.6

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