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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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The Principle of Sufficient Reason: a Moral Argument [PDF]

, 1996
The Clarke/Rowe version of the Cosmological Argument is sound only if the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) is true, but many philosophers, including Rowe, think that there is not adequate evidence for the principle of sufficient reason.
Mark T. Nelson
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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 Principle of Sufficient Reason [PDF]

, 2021
Leibniz, and many following him, saw the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) as pivotal to a scientific (demonstrated) metaphysics. Against this backdrop, Kant is expected to pay close attention to PSR in his reflections on the possibility of ...
Lu-Adler, Huaping
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Leibniz et Heidegger : Principe de raison suffisante et Satz vom Grund. Quelques remarques sur la destruction heideggérienne du Principe De raison (suffisante). Le Fondement (Grund) de 1929 et le Satz vom Grund (1955-56)

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2021
In the present discussion, I set myself the objective of sketching out Martin Heidegger’s two different approaches to the principle of sufficient reason in Leibniz.
Martin Škára
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The notion of necessity in the German philosophy of the Enlightenment [PDF]

Кантовский сборник, 2014
Necessity is a key philosophical notion, which is used in different disciplines from logic to ontology. In the German philosophy of the Enlightenment, this concept was centralto the work of many thinkers.
Fetisova D.
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Leibniz’s Dual Concept of Probability

Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022
Leibniz uses the concept of probability in both epistemic and non-epistemic contexts, as do many of his contemporaries. Some commentators have claimed that this dual-use is inexact or confused.
Binyamin Eisner
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BOOK REVIEW: GUYER, PAUL. Kant on the Rationality of Morality (Cambridge University Press, 2019, 73p. )

Manuscrito, 2020
I discuss Paul Guyer’s contribution to the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant series. The author argues that Kant derives the fundamental principle and the object of morality from the fundamental principles of reason (the law of ...
VINICIUS CARVALHO
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The PSR as a practical principle in Kantian ethics [PDF]

Belgrade Philosophical Annual
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) is the canonical expression of the idea of reality as fundamentally rational or intelligible, such that there is always a sufficient ground or explanation for everything about which such questions can be asked. In
Schafer Karl
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Leibniz and Kant: principle of sufficient reason and the “unconditioned” [PDF]

This article aims to show the relation between the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) and the idea of pure reason known as “unconditioned” based on the thoughts of Leibniz and Kant.
Derócio Felipe Perondi Meotti
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