Fading Foundations [electronic resource] : Probability and the Regress Problem

• Tác giả: David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg
• Ngôn ngữ: ger
• ISBN-13: 978-3319582955
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 120 Epistemology, causation, humankind
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017
• Mô tả vật lý: XI, 238 p. , online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 170148
• Chủ đề: 1. Decision making; 2. Epistemology; 3. Mathematical logic; 4. Operations research; 5. Physics; 6. Statistics ; 8. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics; 9. Mathematical Logic and Foundations; 10. Operations Research/Decision Theory; 11. Statistical Theory and Methods

Tóm tắt

 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.