Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem

• Yazar: Jeanne Peijnenburg (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: David Atkinson (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Springer Nature 2017
• Seri Bilgileri: Synthese Library
• Konular: Philosophy; epistemology; epistemic justification; infinite regress; ethics; metaphysics; philosophy
• Online Erişim: 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...