Abstract The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) has been an influential thesis since the
earliest stages of western philosophy. According to a simple version of the PSR, for every …

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of the idea that some facts call for
explanation. This idea serves as a premise in influential arguments for the inexistence of …

Many moral debunking arguments are driven by the idea that the correlation between our
moral beliefs and the moral truths is a big coincidence, given a robustly realist conception of …

In this article, I discuss a trivialization worry for Hartry Field's official formulation of the access
problem for mathematical realists, which was pointed out by Øystein Linnebo (and has …

According to an influential account of the new mechanistic philosophy of science, entities
and activities compose mechanisms. However, the new mechanists have paid too little …

Humean metaphysical views have often been criticised for leading to inductive scepticism. If
there is no glue holding the world together, as the Humean believes, then there seems to be …

At the core of the recent debate over moral debunking arguments is a disagreement
between explanationist and modalist approaches. Explanationists think that the lack of an …

According to the Principle of Sufficient Reason, every fact has an explanation. An important
challenge to this principle is that it risks being a counterexample to itself. What explains why …

Abstract Model transfer is the scientific practice of taking a model which was initially applied
in one particular kind of target system in some particular scientific domain and applying it to …

In this book, I defend the present-centered approach in historiography of science (ie study of
the history of science), build an account for causal explanations in historiography of science …