Introduction : the conception of infinite regress
Regress theory
Some modes of vicious regress
Some modes of innocuous regress
Circularity and endless regress
Dispensing with "the regress of reasons"
Propositional regresses
The ancients
The medievals
The early moderns
Kant
From Hegel to Dewey
Bertrand Russell
Gilbert Ryle on mind and the free will perplex.
Infinite regress : the theory and history of varieties of change by Nicholas Rescher. ISBN 9781412810968. Published by Transaction Publishers in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.