Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1013268520
• ISBN13: 9781013268526
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"