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 bac

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David Atkinson Jeanne Peijnenburg

Fading Foundations Probability and the Regress Problem

Synthese Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science Volume 383

Editor-in-Chief Otávio Bueno, University of Miami, Department of Philosophy, USA Editors Berit Brogaard, University of Miami, USA Anjan Chakravartty, University of Notre Dame, USA Steven French, University of Leeds, UK Catarina Dutilh Novaes, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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David Atkinson • Jeanne Peijnenburg

Fading Foundations Probability and the Regress Problem

David Atkinson University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands

Jeanne Peijnenburg University of Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands

Synthese Library ISBN 978-3-319-58294-8 ISBN 978-3-319-58295-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58295-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017941185 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. This book is an open access publication Open Access This book is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the work’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if such material is not included in the work’s Creative Commons license and the respective action is not permitted by statutory regulation, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to duplicate, adapt or reproduce the material. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Tief ist der Brunnen der Vergangenheit. Sollte man ihn nicht unergr¨undlich nennen? (Deep is the well of the past. Should one not call it unfathomable?)

Thomas Mann — Joseph und seine Br¨uder

Preface

This book is the result