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Epistemology and the Regress Problem (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) - Softcover

Book 15 of 207: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Aikin, Scott

 
9780415847445: Epistemology and the Regress Problem (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415847443 ISBN 13: 9780415847445
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

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 reasons, one must have further reasons to hold they are good, and so a regress of reasons looms. In this new study, Aikin presents a full case for infinitism as a response to the problem of the regress of reasons. Infinitism is the view that one must have a non-terminating chain of reasons in order to be justified. The most defensible form of infinitism, he argues, is that of a mixed theory – that is, epistemic infinitism must be consistent with and integrate other solutions to the regress problem.

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About the Author

Scott F. Aikin is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415847443
ISBN 13 
9780415847445
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
220