Alexander R. Pruss The Principle Of Sufficient Reason A Reassessment | Alexander Pruss
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Author: Alexander Pruss
Added by: carlosdam01
Added Date: 2021-08-05
Publication Date: 2009
Language: eng
Subjects: Philosophy
Collections: folkscanomy philosophy, folkscanomy, additional collections
Pages Count: 600
PPI Count: 600
PDF Count: 1
Total Size: 317.57 MB
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts
must have explanations. In this volume, the first on the topic in the English
language in nearly half a century, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive
philosophical issues raised by the PSR, which currently is considered
primarily within the context of various cosmological arguments for the
existence of God. Discussing several forms of the PSR and selected historical
episodes from Parmenides, Aquinas, Leibniz, Hume, and Kant,
Pruss defends the claim that every true contingent proposition must have
an explanation against major objections, including Hume’s imaginability
argument and Peter van Inwagen’s argument that the PSR entails modal
fatalism. Pruss also provides a number of positive arguments for the PSR,
based on considerations as different as the metaphysics of existence, counterfactuals
and modality, negative explanations, and the everyday applicability
of the PSR. Moreover, Pruss shows how the PSR would advance
the discussion in a number of disparate fields, such as metaethics and the
philosophy of mathematics.
