Principle of sufficient reason : a reassessment

By:

Pruss, Alexander R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xiii, 335 p, : 24 cmISBN:

9780521184397

DDC classification:

111 PRU.P

Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. Reflections on some historical episodes -- 3. The causal principle and the PSR -- 4. A modern version of the Hume objection -- 5. The anti-theological argument : that there are no necessary beings -- 6. Modal fatalism -- 7. Free will -- 8. Quantum mechanics -- 9. Turning Leibniz against the PSR -- 10. What survives the criticisms of the PSR? -- 11. Self-evidence -- 12. Three Thomistic arguments -- 13. Modal arguments -- 14. Is the universe reasonable? -- 15. Explanation of negative states of affairs -- 16. The puzzle of the everyday applicability of the PSR -- 17. Inference to the best or only explanation -- 18. Inductive skepticism -- 19. The nature of possibility -- 20. Conclusions.

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1. Introduction --
2. Reflections on some historical episodes --
3. The causal principle and the PSR --
4. A modern version of the Hume objection --
5. The anti-theological argument : that there are no necessary beings --
6. Modal fatalism --
7. Free will --
8. Quantum mechanics --
9. Turning Leibniz against the PSR --
10. What survives the criticisms of the PSR? --
11. Self-evidence --
12. Three Thomistic arguments --
13. Modal arguments --
14. Is the universe reasonable? --
15. Explanation of negative states of affairs --
16. The puzzle of the everyday applicability of the PSR --
17. Inference to the best or only explanation --
18. Inductive skepticism --
19. The nature of possibility --
20. Conclusions.

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