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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR [PDF]

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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HOW THE PRINCIPLE OF SUFFICIENT REASON UNDERMINES THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT [PDF]

Kriterion, 2023
My aim here is to show how the Cosmological Argument (CA) is undermined by one of its own premises: the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR). Firstly, I explain the type of CA that I am thinking about (I).
Sebastián Briceño
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Incompatibilism and the Principle of Sufficient Reason in Kant’s 'Nova Dilucidatio'

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022
The consensus is that in his 1755 'Nova Dilucidatio', Kant endorsed broadly Leibnizian compatibilism, then switched to a strongly incompatibilist position in the early 1760s.
Aaron Wells
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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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The principle of sufficient reason in German philosophy of the Enlight-enment [PDF]

Кантовский сборник, 2013
In the 18th century, a philosophical dispute over the Principle of sufficient reason arose in Germany. Despite the fact that this Principe was explicitly formulated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz only at the end of the 17th century, a major dispute about ...
Fetisova D.
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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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Skepticism and the principle of sufficient reason [PDF]

Philosophical Studies, 2020
Robert Koons
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Nāgārjuna and Vasubandhu on the principle of sufficient reason [PDF]

Asian Journal of Philosophy
Allison Aitken
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Untangling Determinism: Revisiting the Principle of Sufficient Reason in the * Post-Avicennian Debates on Free Will [PDF]

Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2023
Avicenna was one of the premodern philosophers who argued for the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), namely the claim that everything has a cause and that no uncaused beings can exist.
10.12658/Nazariyat.9.2.M0210en
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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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