Kleinschmidt on the Principle of Sufficient Reason
Philosophers have perhaps more often assumed the Principle of Sufficient Reason than argued for it. Furthermore, this assumption has, in recent years, fallen out of favor due to the PSR's allegedly unacceptable consequences. Recently, however, the PSR has been defended by Alexander Pruss and Michael Della Rocca. Pruss and Della Rocca both argue that (a version of) the PSR is a presupposition of reason. Pruss defends a version of the PSR restricted to contingent truths and consistent with libertarian free will and indeterminism is physics as a presupposition of our scientific and 'commonsense' explanatory practices. Della Rocca argues that the...
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Alexander R. Pruss
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Cosmological Argument
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Existence of God
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Metaphysics
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Michael Della Rocca
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Modality
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Ned Markosian
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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Philosophy of Science
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Shieva Kleinschmidt
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Tyron Goldschmidt
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