Atkinson, David. <br/><br/>
Fading Foundations  Probability and the Regress Problem /  [electronic resource] : 
by David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg. 
 - 1st ed. 2017. 
 - Cham :  Springer International Publishing :  Imprint: Springer,  2017. 
 - XI, 238 p.  online resource. 
 - Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ;  383 .
 - Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ;  383 .
<br/><br/>1. The Regress Problem -- 2. Epistemic Justification -- 3. The Probabilistic Regress -- 4. Fading Foundations and the Emergence of Justification -- 5 Finite Minds -- 6. Conceptual Objections -- 7. Higher-Order Probabilities -- 8. Loops and Networks. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783319582955 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Epistemology.<br/>Mathematical logic.<br/>Statistics .<br/>Physics.<br/>Operations research.<br/>Decision making.<br/>Epistemology.<br/>Mathematical Logic and Foundations.<br/>Statistical Theory and Methods.<br/>History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.<br/>Operations Research/Decision Theory.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BD143-237 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>120