Defeasibly Sufficient Reason
The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 2001:1-10 (2001)
| Abstract | My aim is to show that supervenience claims follow from instances of a principle I call the principle of defeasibly sufficient reason. This principle construes the completeness of physics quite differently from strong or reductive physicalism and encodes both scientific and common sense patterns of explanation and justification. Rather than thoroughly defending the principle in the short space of this paper, I will sketch how one might defend it and a resulting fainthearted physicalism | |||||||||
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