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- 2010
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- Book Title
- Infinite Regress Arguments
- Book Series
- Argumentation Library
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Genre
- Philosophy
- Topic
- Epistemology, Religious, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Logic
- Item Weight
- 38.4 Oz
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- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- Xii, 211 Pages
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Infinite regress arguments are part of a philosopher's tool kit. But how sharp or strong is this tool? The author has collected and evaluated a host of infinite regress arguments, comparing and contrasting many of the formal and non-formal properties.
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Springer Netherlands
ISBN-10
9048133408
ISBN-13
9789048133406
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Infinite Regress Arguments
Number of Pages
Xii, 211 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Epistemology, Religious, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Logic
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Philosophy
Type
Textbook
Book Series
Argumentation Library
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight
38.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
22
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From the reviews: "This is a much welcomed book. Its main message is: make your infinite regress argument explicit! The typical presentation of such an argument is, as Gratton puts it, 'so succinct and has so many gaps' ... that we hardly know what to think of it. ... The book is a very welcome addition to the philosophical toolkit." (Jan Willem Wieland, Argumentation, Vol. 25, 2011), From the reviews: "This is a much welcomed book. Its main message is: make your infinite regress argument explicit! The typical presentation of such an argument is, as Gratton puts it, 'so succinct and has so many gaps' ... that we hardly know what to think of it. ... The book is a very welcome addition to the philosophical toolkit." (Jan Willem Wieland, Argumentation, Vol. 25, 2011), From the reviews:This is a much welcomed book. Its main message is: make your infinite regress argument explicit! The typical presentation of such an argument is, as Gratton puts it, 'so succinct and has so many gaps' … that we hardly know what to think of it. … The book is a very welcome addition to the philosophical toolkit. (Jan Willem Wieland, Argumentation, Vol. 25, 2011)
Series Volume Number
17
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Dewey Decimal
160
Lc Classification Number
Bl51
Table of Content
Introduction.- Chapter 1 What is an infinite regress argument? 1.1 The general structure of infinite regress arguments. 1.2 Boundaries of an infinite regress argument. 1.2.1 Boundaries when an infinite regress is vicious. 1.2.2 Boundaries when an infinite regress is benign. 1.3 A hypothesis H about the nature of infinite regresses. 1.4 Testing hypothesis H. 1.5 Testing hypothesis H with nonconcatenating regresses. 1.6 Other features of infinite regresses. 1.7 The necessary quantity of terms and relations. 1.8 The relation of terms and objects of infinite regresses. 1.9 Applications of hypothesis H to various example. 1.9.1 Plato's couch. 1.9.2 Teachers taught by teachers. 1.9.3 Gods giving meaning to Gods. 1.9.4 Maps of maps. 1.9.5 Lewis Carroll's 'What the Tortoise said to Achilles'. 1.10 Logical functions of infinite regresses. 1.10.1 Benign regresses. 1.10.2 Superfluous regresses. 1.11 Cogency and benign regresses. Chapter 2 Formal and nonformal logic of infinite concatenating regresses. 2.1 Recurring terms, loops, and regress formulas. 2.2 Applications. 2.3 Recurring terms, loops, and infinite concatenating regresses. 2.4 Relations and loops. 2.5 Blocking all possible loops. 2.6 Are irreflexivity, or asymmetry or transitivity necessary to block loops? 2.7 Concatenating relations in regress formulas. 2.8 Directions of infinite concatenating regresses. 2.9 Non-formal considerations in regress formulas. 2.9.1 Relations and their implications. 2.9.2 Stated properties of terms. 2.9.3 Unstated properties of terms. 2.10 Summary. 2.11 Evaluative questions. Chapter 3 Viciousness. 3.1 Are there inherently vicious regresses? 3.2 Clark on viciousness. 3.3 Johnstone and viciousness. 3.4 Uncompletability and viciousness. 3.5 Occam's Razor: ontological extravagance. 3.6 Blocking some vicious regresses. 3.6.1 Hume. 3.6.2 Miller. 3.6.3 Laurence and Margolis. 3.6.4 The general form of the argument for blocking regresses.Chapter 4 Circular definitions and circular explanations. 4.1 A formal derivation of infinite regresses from circular definitions. 4.2 Infinitely many infinite regresses. 4.3 Semantic considerations. 4.4 Regresses independent of circularity. 4.5 The viciousness of infinite regresses entailed by circular definitions. The derivation of infinite regresses from circular explanations. Chapter 5 Infinite regresses of recurring questions. 5.1 Recurring questions and the derivation of infinite regresses. 5.2 Recurring questions and vicious regresses. Chapter 6 Infinite regresses of recurring problems and responses. 6.1 Plato's aviary in the Theatetus. 6.2 McTaggart's discontinual regress. 6.3 Mackie's discontinual regress. 6.4 Armstrong's continual regress. 6.5 A continual regress in a version of Cantor's diagonal method. 6.6 Lehrer's non-continual regress. 6.7 Evaluative questions.
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2009
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