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100	1		_aAtkinson, David. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aFading Foundations _h[electronic resource] : _bProbability and the Regress Problem / _cby David Atkinson, Jeanne Peijnenburg.
264		1	_aCham : _bSpringer International Publishing : _bImprint: Springer, _c2017.
300			_aXI, 238 p. _bonline resource.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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490	1		_aSynthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; _v383
505	0		_a1. 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.
506	0		_aOpen Access
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aPhilosophy.
650		0	_aOperations research.
650		0	_aDecision making.
650		0	_aEpistemology.
650		0	_aMathematical logic.
650		0	_aPhysics.
650		0	_aStatistics.
650	1	4	_aPhilosophy.
650	2	4	_aEpistemology.
650	2	4	_aMathematical Logic and Foundations.
650	2	4	_aStatistical Theory and Methods.
650	2	4	_aHistory and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
650	2	4	_aOperation Research/Decision Theory.
700	1		_aPeijnenburg, Jeanne. _eauthor.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
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776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783319582948
830		0	_aSynthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; _v383
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