R. Winkler, Philosophy of finitude

The Sense of Finitude and the Finitude of Sense

For Martin Heidegger in Being and Time, human existence (Dasein) is essentially finite in its directedness toward death as a final and unavoidable individuating possibility. In Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Heidegger further specifies the finitude of Dasein, following Kant, as the capacity to be affected by external objects, which gives rise to the temporal problem of the relationship be...

Infinitism, finitude and normativity

I evaluate two new objections to an infinitist account of epistemic justification, and conclude that they fail to raise any new problems for infinitism. The new objections are a refined version of the finite-mind objection, which says infinitism demands more than finite minds can muster, and the normativity objection, which says infinitism entails that we are epistemically blameless in holding ...

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Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

Three Approaches to Finitude in Belief Change

Since neither a human mind nor a computer can deal directly with infinite structures, well-behaved models of belief change should operate exclusively on belief states that have a finite representation. Three ways to achieve this without resorting to a finite language are investigated: belief bases, specified meet contraction, and focused propositional extenders. Close connections are shown to h...