Fading Foundations —— Probability And The Regress Problem

----- 衰落的基础：概率与回归问题

ISBN: 9783319582948 出版年：2017 页码：242 Atkinson, David Springer

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.