Fading Foundations : Probability and the Regress Problem

Fading Foundations Probability and the Regress Problem

This 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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Atkinson, David. author (author), Peijnenburg, Adriana Johanna Maria, 1952- author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham Springer Nature 2017
Cham : 2017.
Edición:1st ed. 2017.
Colección:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, 383
Materias:
Epistemology.
Mathematical logic.
Statistics .
Physics.
Operations research.
Decision making.
Mathematical Logic and Foundations.
Statistical Theory and Methods.
History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.
Operations Research/Decision Theory.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. 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.

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