Könyv Fading Foundations David Atkinson

Fading Foundations

Nyelv: Angol
Kötés: Kemény kötésű
Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten
Küldés 10-13 napon belül
19 305 Ft
This Open Access book addresses the age-old problem of infinite regresses in epistemology. How can...

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Nyelv
Angol
Kötés
Könyv - Kemény kötésű
Kiadva
2017
oldal
238
EAN
9783319582948
ISBN
3319582941
Enbook ID
16190103
Súly
5029
Méretek
155 x 235 x 18

Teljes leírás

This Open Access 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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