Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose that someone notes that the digits of π starting at some position n start looking like they have an odd pattern, and it occurs to ...

Suppose union dualism is true (I am a composite consisting of soul and body) and I am looking at a red cube. Then I am consciously aware of ...

Consider the consent argument for antinatalism (the view that human reproduction is morally wrong) that we shouldn’t impose great risks on p...

Sometimes I have some onerous task that we seem to have a duty to perform. And then something happens—perhaps we learn something or perhaps ...

Corruptionism is the Christian view that at death we cease to exist, and only return to existence at the resurrection of the dead. There are...

It has occurred to me that there is a kind of fine-tuning of multiverse theories. If there is too large a variety of universes within a mul...

I think the historical Aquinas’ solution to how God is one in three persons is a relative identity view that posits two kinds of identity: ...

One now-classic solution to some of the challenges of the doctrine of the Trinity is relative identity. On relative identity accounts of the...

Markosian once proposed brutal composition as an answer to the question of when a (proper) plurality of objects composes a whole: compositi...

A principle that both Catholic and Orthodox Christians appreciate is lex orandi, lex credendi : the law of prayer is the law of faith, Now ...

Suppose we model the Trinity as three vertices with arrows between them representing relations of procession, such that: No two vertices h...

I was teaching Paley, for the n th time, and it hit me to wonder how I would react to finding the watch if I was a caveman. There is one thi...

Imagine being given a list generated as follows, without being told how it was generated: A randomly chosen set of 2000 mutually consisten...

Here is a test case for explanationist stories about initial priors, on which a more explanatory theory has a higher initial prior. Consider...

St Thomas holds that we cannot know by natural reason that God is a Trinity. However, he also endorses a version of St Augustine’s account ...