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The Principle of Sufficient Reason : a Reassessment /

The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts must have explanation. In this 2006 volume, which was the first on the topic in the English language in nearly half a century, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive philosophical issues raised by the Principle Reason. Discuss...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pruss, Alexander R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Cambridge studies in philosophy.
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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Introduction --  |g 2.  |t Reflections on some historical episodes --  |g 3.  |t The causal principle and the PSR --  |g 4.  |t A modern version of the Hume objection --  |g 5.  |t The anti-theological argument : that there are no necessary beings --  |g 6.  |t Modal fatalism --  |g 7.  |t Free will --  |g 8.  |t Quantum mechanics --  |g 9.  |t Turning Leibniz against the PSR --  |g 10.  |t What survives the criticisms of the PSR? --  |g 11.  |t Self-evidence --  |g 12.  |t Three Thomistic arguments --  |g 13.  |t Modal arguments --  |g 14.  |t Is the universe reasonable? --  |g 15.  |t Explanation of negative states of affairs --  |g 16.  |t The puzzle of the everyday applicability of the PSR --  |g 17.  |t Inference to the best or only explanation --  |g 18.  |t Inductive skepticism --  |g 19.  |t The nature of possibility --  |g 20.  |t Conclusions. 
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