The Principle Of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment

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• The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment available on November 05 2023 from BiggerBooks for 40.13
  
• The Principle Of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment available on September 02 2015 from Indigo for 54.41
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521184397 ξ1 registered November 05 2023
  
• ISBN bar code 9780521184397 ξ2 registered September 02 2015
  
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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. Discussing various forms of the PSR and selected historical episodes, from Parmenides, Leibnez, and Hume, 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, including meta-ethics and the philosophy of mathematics.

^ Alexander R. Pruss (2014). The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment, Cambridge University Press. BiggerBooks. ISBN 9780521184397 (revised Nov 2023)
^ The Principle Of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment Indigo. ISBN 9780521184397 (revised Sep 2015)