Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung

Gerhard Ernst formulates the following trilemma: (1) We love persons because of their lovable qualities. (2) Lovable qualities can have multiple instantiations.(3) Loved persons are irreplaceable. All three of these claims are prima facie...

In this article a philosophical theory of causation is developed which is inde terministic in that it reconciles the thesis that every event has a cause with the thesis that there are contingent events. Its basic idea is the following: A con tingent...