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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
The Journal of Philosophy, 2001The paper is about the physical theories which result when one identifies points in phase space related by symmetries; with applications to problems concerning gauge freedom and the structure of spacetime in classical mechanics.
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Principle of Sufficient Reason
2020A discussion of three central questions: (i) to what extent is the contemporary notion of metaphysical explanation continuous with the notion of sufficient reason endorsed by Spinoza, Leibniz, and other rationalists? (ii) to what extent can the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) avoid the formidable traditional objections levelled against it if it is
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Is There Reason to Believe the Principle of Sufficient Reason?
Philosophia, 2021Shamik Dasgupta (Nous 50: 379–418, 2016) proposes to tame the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) to apply to only non-autonomous facts, which are facts that are apt for explanation. Call this strategy to tame the PSR the taming strategy. In a recent paper, Della Rocca (PS 178: 1101–1119, 2020a; The parmenidean ascent, Oxford University Press, 2020b ...
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Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason
2003Abstract According to Pascal, we are wise enough to appreciate our contradictions but not wise enough to resolve them. He winds up using probability calculations as a ladder to heaven—a ladder that is kicked away after religious conversion.
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
1971The basic philosophical difficulty people feel in believing in freewill lies in the fact that this doctrine seems to violate the principle of sufficient reason. Now the principle of sufficient reason is simply the doctrine that behind every event whatever there is a “sufficient,” i.e., entirely adequate, reason for its happening rather than something ...
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A DEFENSE OF A PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON
Metaphilosophy, 1995L'A. presente un argument de defense du principe de raison suffisante qui prend en compte les diverses critiques auxquelles ce principe a deja ete ...
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Schopenhauer on the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures, 1971‘The Principle of Sufficient Reason in all its forms is the sole principle and the sole support of all necessity. For necessity has no other true and distinct meaning than that of the infallibility of the consequence when the reason is posited. Accordingly every necessity is conditioned; absolute, i.e.
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Two criticisms of the principle of sufficient reason
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1987A cosmological argument for the existence of God purports to infer the existence of a necessary being from the existence of one or more contingent existents. The justification for the inference is that one cannot consistently hold that x is contingent and that y does not exist, where y is a necessary being. The justification for this claim is generally
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Reflections on the principle of sufficient reason
The Southern Journal of PhilosophyAbstract This essay is a discussion of the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the context of fundamental principles of philosophy. The paper discusses what the Principle is, Leibniz's argument for it, a contemporary argument for it, given by Michael Della Rocca, and an argument drawn from Buddhist philosophy by Allison Aitken.
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