TY - BOOK ID - 80819105 TI - The principle of sufficient reason PY - 2006 SN - 9780511498992 9780521859592 9780521184397 052185959X 9780511221354 0511221355 0511220073 9780511220074 9780511219399 0511219393 051122043X 9780511220432 0511219393 052185959X 110716740X 1280480467 0511316127 0511498993 0521184398 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Sufficient reason KW - Reason, Sufficient KW - Causation KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Logic KW - Metaphysics KW - Philosophy KW - Values KW - Sufficient reason. KW - Causation. KW - Causality KW - Cause and effect KW - Effect and cause KW - Final cause KW - Beginning KW - God KW - Necessity (Philosophy) KW - Teleology KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80819105 AB - 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. 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. ER -