Infinitism Regained

Mind 116 (463):597-602 (2007)
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Abstract

Consider the following process of epistemic justification: proposition $E_{0}$ is made probable by $E_{1}$ which in turn is made probable by $E_{2}$ , which is made probable by $E_{3}$ , and so on. Can this process go on indefinitely? Foundationalists, coherentists, and sceptics claim that it cannot. I argue that it can: there are many infinite regresses of probabilistic reasoning that can be completed. This leads to a new form of epistemic infinitism

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Jeanne Peijnenburg
University of Groningen

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Bayesian Epistemology.William Talbott - 2006 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Fading Foundations: Probability and the Regress Problem.Jeanne Peijnenburg - 2017 - Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Edited by Jeanne Peijnenburg.
Justification by an Infinity of Conditional Probabilities.David Atkinson & Jeanne Peijnenburg - 2009 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 50 (2):183-193.

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Epistemic probability.Richard Fumerton - 2004 - Philosophical Issues 14 (1):149–164.

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