• Title: Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem
• Author(s) David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg
• Publisher: Springer; 1st ed. (July 7, 2017); eBook (Creative Commons Licensed)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Paperback: 252 pages
• eBook: PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3319582941
• ISBN-13: 978-3319582948
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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? 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.

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