Friday, September 22, 2017

Progress report on books

My Necessary Existence book with Josh Rasmussen is right now in copyediting by Oxford.

I am making final revisions to the manuscript of Infinity, Causation and Paradox, with a deadline in mid October. As of right now, I've finished revising five out of ten chapters.

I am toying with one day writing a book on the ethics of love.

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9 comments:

  1. steveSeptember 22, 2017 at 2:21 PM

    What's the basic thesis of Infinity, Causation and Paradox?

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    1. Alexander R PrussSeptember 25, 2017 at 11:39 AM

      No effect can have an infinite number of causes behind it.

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  2. steveSeptember 25, 2017 at 12:05 PM

    I take it you're defending a version of the cosmological argument by denying the possibility of an infinite causal regress.

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  3. Alexander R PrussSeptember 25, 2017 at 12:13 PM

    That's one of the applications.

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  4. TomNovember 24, 2017 at 10:28 PM

    Dr. Pruss,

    If you'll forgive the possible commercialism, Christmas is coming up (today is Black Friday, after all), and I was wondering what the status and ETA of these books is, especially the former, since it sounds much closer to publication.

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  5. Alexander R PrussNovember 25, 2017 at 12:28 AM

    We have the first proofs. So months away still...

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  6. PrestonuteNovember 26, 2017 at 3:34 AM

    What's the basic thesis of Necessary Existence?

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  7. Alexander R PrussNovember 27, 2017 at 2:53 PM

    There is at least one "necessary being", where a necessary being is a concrete being that necessarily exists and a concrete being is a being that possibly causes something.

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  8. Alexander R PrussDecember 1, 2017 at 2:10 PM

    The current ETA for both books is Summer 2018.

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