Foundationalism and the Infinite Regress of Reasons

Abstract

In Metaepistemology and Skepticism (Rowman & Littlefield:1995), Richard Fumerton defends foundationalism. As part ofthe defense he rejects infinitism--the view that holds thatthe solution to the problem of the regress of justificatoryreasons is that the reasons are infinitely many andnonrepeating. I examine some of those arguments and attemptto show that they are not really telling against (at leastsome versions of) infinitism. Along the way I present someobjections to his account of inferential justification.