220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the last decade, the familiar problem of the regress of reasons has returned to prominent consideration in epistemology. And with the return of the problem, evaluation of the options available for its solution is begun anew. Reason’s regress problem, roughly put, is that if one has good reasons to believe something, one must have good reason to hold those reasons are good. And for those... Read more
Introduction 1. The Regress Problem 2. Infinitism Defended 3. Metaepistemology and the Varieties of Infinitism 4. Foundationalism and Infinitism 5. Foundationalism, Infinitism, and Argumentation
Biography
Scott F. Aikin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.
'Scott Aikin's excellent book, Epistemology and the Regress Problem, is a thorough, engagingly written, and often humorous exploration, explication, and defense of a version of infinitism about justification -- the view that the structure of epistemically justifying reasons is infinite. ... With utter and all due respect for Peter Klein's seminal work in the service of infinitism, this book sets the new standard.'
– Kelly Becker, University of New Mexico, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
