Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction: The Conception of Infinite Regress
Part 1: Systematic Considerations
1. Regress Theory
2. Some Modes of Vicious Regress
3. Some Modes of Innocuous Regress
4. Circularity and Endless Regress
5. Dispensing with "The Regress of Reasons"
6. Propositional Regresses
Part 2: Historical Considerations
7. The Ancients
8. The Medievals
9. The Early Moderns
10. Kant
11. From Hegel to Dewey
12. Bertrand Russell
13. Gilbert Ryle on Mind and the Free Will Perplex
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Nicholas Rescher is Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of numerous philosophical works and holds eight honorary degrees from universities on three continents. He has served as a president of the American Philosophical Association, the American Metaphilosophical Society, and the American Catholic Philosophical Association.