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2023
Abstract This chapter turns to the characterizations that Kant provides of reason’s governing principle, focusing first on his discussion of this in the theoretical domain. In doing so, it argues that reason’s most fundamental principle can be thought of as a version of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), albeit one that is ...
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Prevention, Preemption, and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

The Philosophical Review, 2007
[Introduction] One event, e, counterfactually depends upon another event, c, just in case e would not have occurred had c not occurred. Beginning with the seminal paper of David Lewis in 1973, there has been a lively philosophical tradition of trying to analyze token causation in terms of counterfactual dependence.
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The principle of sufficient reason

Proceedings of the conference on Programming languages and compilers for parallel and vector machines -, 1975
To a large extent, the design of languages for parallel processing machines seems to be a problem merely because of the historical precedence of von Neumann machines. We have grown up professionally in a serial computing environment, so that many of the habits we have acquired are related to that seriality and yet are so deeply ingrained thay we do not
Dennis P. Geller, Gerald M. Weinberg
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leibniz
kant
metaphysics

philosophy
determinism
free will

causality
crusius
rationalism