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dc.creator Atkinson, David
dc.creator Peijnenburg, Jeanne
dc.date 2021-02-10T13:54:25Z
dc.date 2021-02-10T13:54:25Z
dc.date 2017
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T21:40:18Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T21:40:18Z
dc.identifier ONIX_20200921_9783319582955_85
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41728
dc.identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31899
dc.identifier https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/41728/1/2017_Book_FadingFoundations.pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/248959
dc.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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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Springer Nature
dc.publisher Springer
dc.relation Synthese Library
dc.rights open access
dc.subject Epistemology
dc.subject Mathematical Logic and Foundations
dc.subject Statistical Theory and Methods
dc.subject History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
dc.subject Operations Research/Decision Theory
dc.subject Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy
dc.subject Operations Research and Decision Theory
dc.subject Epistemic Justification
dc.subject Infinite Regress
dc.subject Regresses in Epistemology
dc.subject Regresses in Ethics
dc.subject Regresses in Metaphysics
dc.subject Regresses in Philosophy of Mind
dc.subject Open Access
dc.subject Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
dc.subject Mathematical foundations
dc.subject Mathematical logic
dc.subject Probability & statistics
dc.subject History of science
dc.subject Operational research
dc.subject Management decision making
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPK Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PB Mathematics::PBC Mathematical foundations
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PB Mathematics::PBT Probability & statistics
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
dc.subject bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KJ Business & management::KJT Operational research
dc.title Fading Foundations
dc.resourceType book
dc.alternateIdentifier 10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5
dc.licenseCondition open access
dc.licenseCondition n/a
dc.identifierdoi 10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5
dc.relationisPublishedBy 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a
dc.pages 238
dc.imprint Springer


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