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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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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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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 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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Why Does Anything Exist?

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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A Comparative Study on the Degree of Dependence of Clarke’s and Sadra’s Arguments for the Existence of God on the Principle of Sufficient Reason [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2010
After briefly discussing the various versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (hereafter PSR), I argue that Clarke’s classic version of the Cosmological Arguments for the existence of God is rooted in the PSR, while Sadra’s so-called Siddigin ...
hasan hoseyni
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