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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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The cosmological argument and the principle of sufficient reason
Continental Philosophy Review, 1968William L Rowe, Rowe William L
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Reason’s Supreme Principle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and the Faculty of Reason
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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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Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu on the principle of sufficient reason
Asian Journal of PhilosophyAllison Aitken
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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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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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Leibniz on the Grounds of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, 2022Abstract I examine several alleged grounds of the principle of sufficient reason in Leibniz’s philosophy. These include the nature of a requisite and a sufficient condition, the nature of truth, and the nature of harmony. I argue that Leibniz does not ground the PSR in any of these ways.
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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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