ABSTRACT
This chapter considers an account of justification that has largely been ignored in epistemology. Its central thesis is that the structure of justificatory reasons is infinite and non-repeating. Foundationalists often begin by somewhat cavalierly rejecting infinitism. Then they proceed by eliminating coherentism through a series of complex and carefully developed arguments. Coherentists often follow a similar general strategy by first rejecting infinitism without any careful examination of the view and then they provide well considered reasons for rejecting foundationalism. Infinitism is like most forms of traditional coherentism in holding that only reasons can justify a belief. Infinitism is unlike traditional coherentism because infinitism does not endorse question begging reasoning. Infinitism is like foundationalism in holding that there are features of the world, perhaps nonnormative features, that make a belief a reason.
