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This 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...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-417282020-09-22T00:48:26Z Fading Foundations Atkinson, David Peijnenburg, Jeanne Epistemology Mathematical Logic and Foundations Statistical Theory and Methods History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics Operations Research/Decision Theory Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy Operations Research and Decision Theory Epistemic Justification Infinite Regress Regresses in Epistemology Regresses in Ethics Regresses in Metaphysics Regresses in Philosophy of Mind Open Access Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge Mathematical foundations Mathematical logic Probability & statistics History of science Operational research Management decision making bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPK Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PB Mathematics::PBC Mathematical foundations bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PB Mathematics::PBT Probability & statistics bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJT Operational research This 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. 2020-09-21T13:41:02Z 2020-09-21T13:41:02Z 2017 book ONIX_20200921_9783319582955_85 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41728 eng Synthese Library application/pdf n/a 2017_Book_FadingFoundations.pdf https://www.springer.com/9783319582955 Springer Nature Springer 10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5 10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5 6c6992af-b843-4f46-859c-f6e9998e40d5 Springer 383 238 open access
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description This 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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