6.17 Infinity And Regresses

Keywords: kant, assent, regress, foundationalism, infinite, ground, deontic, objective, evident, descartes, grounds, distinct, principles, probable, criticism

Number of articles: 30
Weighted number of articles: 32.63416

A scatterplot showing the raw number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic infinity and regresses each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.43, and the median value is 0. It reaches a peak value of 5 in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1946.

Figure 6.73: Raw number of articles in topic 17, infinity and regresses.

A scatterplot showing the weighted number of articles that are in the epistemology subtopic infinity and regresses each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.46, and the median value is 0.18. It reaches a peak value of 4.51 in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0 in 1948.

Figure 6.74: Weighted number of articles in topic 17, infinity and regresses.

A scatterplot showing the proportion of philosophy articles that are in the epistemology subtopic infinity and regresses each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 0.1%, and the median value is 0.0%. It reaches a peak value of 1.0% in 2007, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1948.

Figure 6.75: Percentage of philosophy articles in topic 17, infinity and regresses.

A scatterplot showing the percentage of epistemology articles that are in the epistemology subtopic infinity and regresses each year from 1945-2013. The average value is 1.7%, and the median value is 0.7%. It reaches a peak value of 14.2% in 1950, and has a minimum value of 0.0% in 1998.

Figure 6.76: Percentage of epistemology articles in topic 17, infinity and regresses.

Characteristic Articles

  1. Jeanne Peijnenburg, 2007, “Infinitism Regained,” Mind 116:597–602.
  2. James Van Cleve, 1979, “Foundationalism, Epistemic Principles, and the Cartesian Circle,” Philosophical Review 88:55–91.
  3. Andrew Chignell, 2007, “Belief in Kant,” Philosophical Review 116:323–60.
  4. Nick Bostrom, 2009, “Pascal’s Mugging,” Analysis 69:443–5.
  5. Darrell P. Rowbottom, 2007, “A Refutation of Foundationalism?,” Analysis 67:345–6.
  6. Andrew Chignell, 2007, “Kant’s Concepts of Justification,” Noûs 41:33–63.
  7. Carl Gillett, 2003, “Infinitism Redux? a Response to Klein,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66:709–17.
  8. Michael Scriven, 1961, “Comments on Weingartner,” Philosophy of Science 28:306–6.
  9. Edward Gleason Spaulding, 1910, “The Logical Structure of Self-Refuting Systems: I. Phenomenalism,” Philosophical Review 19:276–301.
  10. Peter Klein, 2003, “When Infinite Regresses are not Vicious,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66:718–29.