Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem

• Главный автор: Jeanne Peijnenburg (auth)
• Другие авторы: David Atkinson (auth)
• Формат: Электронный ресурс Глава книги
• Язык: английский
• Опубликовано: Springer Nature 2017
• Серии: Synthese Library
• Предметы: Philosophy; epistemology; epistemic justification; infinite regress; ethics; metaphysics; philosophy
• Online-ссылка: 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...