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dc.contributor.authorAtkinson, David
dc.contributor.authorPeijnenburg, Jeanne
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-21T13:41:02Z
dc.date.available2020-09-21T13:41:02Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifierONIX_20200921_9783319582955_85
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41728
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSynthese Library
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledgeen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBC Mathematical foundationsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PB Mathematics::PBT Probability and statisticsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of scienceen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJT Operational researchen_US
dc.subject.otherEpistemology
dc.subject.otherMathematical Logic and Foundations
dc.subject.otherStatistical Theory and Methods
dc.subject.otherHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
dc.subject.otherOperations Research/Decision Theory
dc.subject.otherPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy
dc.subject.otherOperations Research and Decision Theory
dc.subject.otherEpistemic Justification
dc.subject.otherInfinite Regress
dc.subject.otherRegresses in Epistemology
dc.subject.otherRegresses in Ethics
dc.subject.otherRegresses in Metaphysics
dc.subject.otherRegresses in Philosophy of Mind
dc.subject.otherOpen Access
dc.subject.otherPhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
dc.subject.otherMathematical foundations
dc.subject.otherMathematical logic
dc.subject.otherProbability & statistics
dc.subject.otherHistory of science
dc.subject.otherOperational research
dc.subject.otherManagement decision making
dc.titleFading Foundations
dc.title.alternativeProbability and the Regress Problem
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5
oapen.imprintSpringer
oapen.series.number383
oapen.pages238


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