Name: Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem (en Inglés)
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Author: David Atkinson ; Jeanne Peijnenburg
ISBN: 9781013268533

portada Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

David Atkinson

Jeanne Peijnenburg

Editorial

Saint Philip Street Press

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Inglés

N° páginas

242

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

27.9 x 21.6 x 1.4 cm

Peso

0.85 kg.

ISBN13

9781013268533

Categorías

Metafísica y ontología

Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem (en Inglés)

David Atkinson (Autor) · Jeanne Peijnenburg (Autor) · Saint Philip Street Press · Tapa Dura

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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 rise to what is often called Agrippa's Trilemma. The current volume approaches the old problem in a provocative and thoroughly contemporary way. Taking seriously the idea that good reasons are typically probabilistic in character, it develops and defends a new solution that challenges venerable philosophical intuitions and explains why they were mistakenly held. Key to the new solution is the phenomenon of fading foundations, according to which distant reasons are less important than those that are nearby. The phenomenon takes the sting out of Agrippa's Trilemma; moreover, since the theory that describes it is general and abstract, it is readily applicable outside epistemology, notably to debates on infinite regresses in metaphysics. The book is a potential game-changer and a must for any advanced student or researcher in the field. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.