Titlebook: Infinite Regress Arguments; Jan Willem Wieland Book 2014 The Author(s) 2014 Carroll’s Tortoise.Failure argument.Infinite regress argument.

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,Case Study: Carroll’s Tortoise,te this kind of controversy in some detail: a recent application of Lewis Carroll’s famous case to the debate on rationality. The main question throughout this chapter will be: is the regress suggested by Carroll’s Tortoise indeed generated? As we will see, this is a delicate issue and it is easy to

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Case Study: Access and the Shirker Problem,nd of controversy in some detail: a regress concerning the so-called Access principle, which places an epistemic restriction on our obligations. Restrictions like Access fall prey to the Shirker Problem, namely the problem that shirkers could evade their obligations by evading certain epistemic circ

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Infinite Regress Arguments978-3-319-06206-8Series ISSN 2211-4548 Series E-ISSN 2211-4556

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Jan Willem WielandProvides an up-to-date overview.Includes ready-to-use insights for all domains of philosophy.Includes two case studies to illustrate these insights in some detail.Includes supplementary material:

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The Paradox Theory,In this chapter, it is explained for what purposes an infinite regress argument can be used, and how an infinite regress argument should be evaluated, according to the Paradox Theory.

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The Failure Theory,In this chapter, it is explained for what purposes an infinite regress argument can be used, and how an infinite regress argument should be evaluated, according to the Failure Theory.