Alexander Pruss's Blog

I was watching an old Aunt Jemima pancake mix commercial which touted it as being made from four flours: wheat, corn, rye and rice, and I d...

Here is a very odd question that occurred to me: Is it good for there to be moral norms? Imagine a world just like this one, except that th...

Philosophy Departments often try to attract undergraduates by telling them about instrumental benefits of philosophy classes: learning gener...

In order to assign non-zero probabilities to such things as a lottery ticket in an infinite fair lottery or hitting a specific point on a ta...

Reductive doxastic moral relativism is the view that an action type’s being morally wrong is nothing but an individual or society’s belief ...

Christians believe that Jesus commanded us to baptize new Christians. However, there is a fundamental division in views: some Christians (su...

As anyone who has talked with a language-learner knows, syntactically incorrect sentences often succeed in expressing a proposition. This is...

Arithmetical truth-value realists hold that any proposition in the language of arithmetic has a fully determined truth value. Arithmetical t...

Given a time t and a world w , possible or not, say that w is t -possible if and only if there is a possible world w t that matches w in...

It is well-known—a feature and not a bug—that Tarski’s definition of truth needs to be given in a metalanguage rather than the object langua...

This is an attempt to make an argument for the natural immortality of the soul from the premise that the soul has a proper operation that is...

Aquinas argues that because the human soul has a proper operation—abstract thought—that does not depend on the body, the soul would survive ...

For years I have thought the finite to be mysterious, and needs something metaphysical like divine illumination or causal finitism to pick i...

Truth-value realism about (first-order) arithmetic is the thesis that for any first-order logic sentence in the language of arithmetic (i.e....

Suppose that an extremely reliable cannon is loaded with a rock, and pointed at a window, and the extremely reliable timer on the cannon is ...