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Schopenhauer׳s interpretation of “The Principle of Sufficient Reason” [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2011 The principle of sufficient reason is one of the most significant philosophical principles. Arthur Schopenhauer, the well-known German philosopher, has emphasized on this principle and taken it as the entrance key element to his philosophical system.
abdollah amini, mohammad javad safian
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Leibniz’s Dual Concept of Probability
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 Leibniz uses the concept of probability in both epistemic and non-epistemic contexts, as do many of his contemporaries. Some commentators have claimed that this dual-use is inexact or confused.
Binyamin Eisner
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Incompatibilism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant’s 'Nova Dilucidatio'
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 The consensus is that in his 1755 'Nova Dilucidatio', Kant endorsed broadly Leibnizian compatibilism, then switched to a strongly incompatibilist position in the early 1760s.
Aaron Wells
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A Changed Understanding of Miracles in Religious Tourism
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2022 In this modern age, an unsceptical acceptance of supernatural events–those which cannot be explained as part of the natural order of things–is less common than it once was.
Stephen Haller
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Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 The distinction between voluntarism and intellectualism has recently been criticized for inaccurately characterising early modern theories of divine freedom.
Lukas Wolf
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Untangling Determinism: Revisiting the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the * Post-Avicennian Debates on Free Will [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2023 Avicenna was one of the premodern philosophers who argued for the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), namely the claim that everything has a cause and that no uncaused beings can exist.
10.12658/Nazariyat.9.2.M0210en
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The principle of sufficient reason in German philosophy of the Enlight-enment [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2013 In the 18th century, a philosophical dispute over the Principle of sufficient reason arose in Germany. Despite the fact that this Principe was explicitly formulated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz only at the end of the 17th century, a major dispute about ...
Fetisova D.
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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)—the principle that everything has a reason—plays a central role in Leibniz’s philosophical system. It is rather difficult, however, to determine what Leibniz’s attitude towards the modal status of the PSR is.
Sebastian Bender
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Skepticism and the principle of sufficient reason [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2020 AbstractThe Principle of Sufficient Reason must be justified dialectically: by showing the disastrous consequences of denying it. We formulate a version of the Principle that is restricted to basic natural facts, which entails the obtaining of at least one supernatural fact. Denying this principle results in extreme empirical skepticism.
Robert C. Koons, Alexander R. Pruss
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Religion and Ethics in Schopenhauer
Voluntas, 2022 Schopenhauer’s theory of religion is mainly discussed in his ethics. Therefore, conventional studies often argue that Schopenhauer made an attempt to make a rational justification of religion through the process of recognising the reason for religion’s ...
Takao Ito
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