Fading Foundations Probability and the Regress Problem /

Fading Foundations Probability and the Regress Problem /

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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...

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Main Authors: Atkinson, David (Author), Peijnenburg, Jeanne (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Edition:1st ed. 2017.
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 383
Subjects:
Knowledge, Theory of.
Mathematical logic.
Statistics .
Physics > Philosophy.
Operations research.
Epistemology.
Mathematical Logic and Foundations.
Statistical Theory and Methods.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.
Operations Research and Decision Theory.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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