Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem

• Main Author: Jeanne Peijnenburg (auth)
• Other Authors: David Atkinson (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2017
• Series: Synthese Library
• Subjects: Philosophy; epistemology; epistemic justification; infinite regress; ethics; metaphysics; philosophy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 ri...