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Metaphysical Foundationalism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Dialogue, 2022 AbstractThere is a ubiquitous claim in the grounding literature that metaphysical foundationalism violates the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) in virtue of positing a level of ungrounded facts. I argue that foundationalists can accept the PSR if they are willing to replace fundamentality as independence with completeness and deny that ground is a ...
Thomas Oberle
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Indefinite extensibility and the principle of sufficient reason [PDF]
Philosophical Studies, 2020 The principle of sufficient reason threatens modal collapse. Some have suggested that by appealing to the indefinite extensibility of contingent truth, the threat is neutralized. This paper argues that this is not so. If the indefinite extensibility of contingent truth is developed in an analogous fashion to the most promising models of the indefinite ...
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Information and causation: two enigmas clarifying each other
Bibliothecae.it, 2023 Information and causality are two central concepts in many disciplines, both very controversial, with respect to which the article offers an overview of the main interpretations and definitions available, with particular attention to those that relate ...
Riccardo Ridi
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El principio de razón suficiente y la ciencia
Scientia et Fides, 2014 El principio de razón suficiente puede tomarse como una guía para el avance del conocimiento filosófico y científico. De este modo, mediante el principio de razón suficiente se establece un vínculo de unión entre las disciplinas científicas y la ...
Rubén Pereda
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Conflicts in the Metaphysical Foundations of Schopenhauer’s Ethics [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 Schopenhauer encourages us towards sympathy and empathy for others by holding that compassion is the foundation and essence of ethics; but when we turn to his philosophical system, we encounter conflicts that negate his ethics and in practice, compassion
Masoud Asgari, Gholam Hossein Tavacoly
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Kant’s Humanism: A Loophole in the Principle of Sufficient Reason [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical InvestigationsI consider the principle of sufficient reason (henceforth, PSR) as it functions in both Leibniz and Kant. The issue separating these thinkers is a modal status of absolute contingency, which is exempt from PSR insofar as it is neither logically necessary,
Daniel Dal Monte
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Kant and the “awakening” from the rationalist principle of sufficient reason
Sententiae, 2020 The paper inspects Anderson’s central thesis that Kant’s dogmatic slumber was interrupted by Hume’s critique of metaphysics (rational theology) in his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, namely, by his critique of the rationalist principle of ...
Victor Chorny
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TheoLogica, 2023 Rasmussen develops a new answer to the question, "Why does anything exist?" He begins by describing a puzzle about how anything can exist. The puzzle motivates the quest to explain things as far as one can.
Joshua Rasmussen
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Necessarianism; Describing and Analyzing two Contemporary Approaches [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019 In contemporary analytic philosophy, the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) has been attacked due to its controversial results. Among these results, necessarianism (modal collapse) is the most significant one. Indeed, our intuition indicates that there
Roozbeh Zare, Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
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Free Will versus Determinism - As Determined by Radical Conceptual Changes [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021 My objective in this article is to question whether the problem of free will can, within our current conceptual system, be framed coherently. It is already widely recognized that a mental faculty, the will, needed to initiate action, no longer fits with ...
Nancey Murphy
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