![]() ![]() A&P oftentimes write as though they believe that APR runs counter to foundationalism. Let this result be “APR” (short for “A&P’s Result”). A&P show that there are probability distributions defined over an infinite set of propositions such that (i) pi is probabilistically supported by pi+1 for all i and (ii) p1 has a high probability. I have in mind here some recent work by David Atkinson and Jeanne Peijnenburg, hereafter “A&P”, on infinite regresses of probabilistic support. Some recent work in formal epistemology promises to shed some new light on that debate. There is a long-standing debate in epistemology on the structure of justification. Undercuts both their objections to abstractionism and (therefore) their objections to foundationalism. The ways in which their own views about perception help fill gaps in earlier accounts of abstractionism. However a direct realist account of perception can inform the needed theory of concept-formation,Īnd leading critics of abstractionism like McDowell and Sellars, direct realists about perception themselves, fail to appreciate Of direct realism like Laurence BonJour are correct that an account of direct perception by itself does not provide an adequateĪccount of justification. Theory of concept-formation, the view that it is possible to abstract concepts directly from the empirically given. Solve the regress problem and support a foundationalist account of justification, but only if it is supplemented by an abstractionist I argue that direct realism about perception can help Project: the foundationalist approach to the epistemic regress problem. To both, I apply insights about the psychology of human perception and concept-formation to a very traditional epistemological To the prescriptive goal of traditional epistemology, that of providing first-person guidance in determining the truth. Both traditional and naturalistic epistemologists have long assumed that the examination of human psychology has no relevance
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