TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atkinson, David
AU  - Peijnenburg, Jeanne
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20200921_9783319582955_85
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Mathematical Logic and Foundations
KW  - Statistical Theory and Methods
KW  - History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
KW  - Operations Research/Decision Theory
KW  - Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy
KW  - Operations Research and Decision Theory
KW  - Epistemic Justification
KW  - Infinite Regress
KW  - Regresses in Epistemology
KW  - Regresses in Ethics
KW  - Regresses in Metaphysics
KW  - Regresses in Philosophy of Mind
KW  - Open Access
KW  - Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
KW  - Mathematical foundations
KW  - Mathematical logic
KW  - Probability & statistics
KW  - History of science
KW  - Operational research
KW  - Management decision making
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/54768109-22d2-4984-8515-741c1f8a9003/2017_Book_FadingFoundations.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41728
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2017
TI  - Fading Foundations : Probability and the Regress Problem
ER  - 
