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100 1 _aAtkinson, David
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700 1 _aPeijnenburg, Jeanne
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245 1 0 _aFading Foundations : Probability and the Regress Problem
260 _bSpringer Nature
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300 _a1 electronic resource (238 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _aThis book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. 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.
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650 7 _aMathematical foundations
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650 7 _aProbability & statistics
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650 7 _aHistory of science
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653 _aEpistemology
653 _aMathematical Logic and Foundations
653 _aStatistical Theory and Methods
653 _aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
653 _aOperations Research/Decision Theory
653 _aPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy
653 _aOperations Research and Decision Theory
653 _aEpistemic Justification
653 _aInfinite Regress
653 _aRegresses in Epistemology
653 _aRegresses in Ethics
653 _aRegresses in Metaphysics
653 _aRegresses in Philosophy of Mind
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653 _aMathematical foundations
653 _aMathematical logic
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653 _aManagement decision making
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