Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem

• Autor principal: Jeanne Peijnenburg (auth)
• Otros Autores: David Atkinson (auth)
• Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
• Lenguaje: inglés
• Publicado: Springer Nature 2017
• Colección: Synthese Library
• Materias: Philosophy; epistemology; epistemic justification; infinite regress; ethics; metaphysics; philosophy
• Acceso en línea: 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...