Calhoun wrote:
Don't know what we can deduce from all those fields. Maybe ~PSR is majority view but can't really tell about the trend. could be that after Leibniz's time, once PSR was getting less and less popular and now its the opposite.
This is just a guess, to be taken with a heavy pinch of salt, but I think there has probably been a bump, a small increase, in the number of people who believe the PSR thanks to the increased popularity of natural theology in the last few decades. (I still suspect that the overall trend is downward or, if not, only not downward because they've pretty much bottomed out.)
Plus it seems lots of hypothesis in these fields are questioned because of concern which relate to psr.
Yeah. I should be clear that I'm not saying that people in these fields are rejecting the PSR for good reasons or without self-inconsistencies. Whether or not there are good reasons for rejecting (or at least questioning) the PSR, I think most of them have bad reasons. (I sort of want to write some really grouchy comments about dogmatic naturalism in ontology, but I'll stop here.)