Alexander Pruss's Blog

You’re thinking whether to become an assembly-line worker or an artist. Then you reflect on the value of knowledge. And you become a factory...

Linda Zagzebski proposes the plausible principle that one is able to ϕ only if ϕ ing is compatible with one’s causal history relevant to ϕ...

Here would be a really bad kind of moral dilemma: It is certain that unless you murder one innocent person now, you will freely become a m...

The physical Church-Turing (PCT) thesis says that anything that can be physically computed can be computed by a Turing machine. If generali...

Plantinga’s transworld depravity thesis holds that in every world that God is contingently capable of actualizing (i.e., every “feasible” wo...

Suppose that Alice on a street corner sells Bob a “Rolex” for $15. Bob goes home and his wife Carla says: “You got scammed!” Bob takes the “...

Consider the following variant of the argument from hiddenness: If God exists, no mature human is ignorant of God’s existence through no f...

When we think of God’s reasons for permitting evils, we tend to think of fairly “natural” connections between evils and goods. But given Mol...

Molinists have the ability to give a distinctive pre-established harmony account of how the exceptionless truth of deterministic laws of nat...

It is not possible for a creature to exercise complete control over another person’s (non-derivatively) free action. If Molinism is true, ...

Suppose a poor and good person is forced to flip a fair and indeterministic coin in circumstances where heads means utter ruin and tails mea...

There is some sort of a link between counterfactuals and dispositions, though there are lots of counterexamples to direct links. Here is a v...

Schellenberg claims that God cannot coexist with a non-resistant non-believer, since God being love would ensure that everyone who is non-re...

Here’s a curious puzzle. Every theist—including the Molinist and the Open Theist—will presumably agree that this conditional is true: If G...

Molinism makes possible a curious kind of moral dilemma. God could reveal to Alice that if Alice doesn’t kill Bob today, she will kill Carl ...

Molinism says that there are non-trivial conditionals of free will and that God providentially decides what to create on the basis of his kn...

Assume Molinism. Plantinga's Trans-World Depravity (TWD) is the thesis that every feasible world--world compatible with the conditionals...

I want to make a distinction that I've long thought is quite important, but which I think is not made enough. Suppose the theist respond...

Start with this consequence of the essentiality of origins: The identity of an individual depends on the exact time of her coming-into-exist...

One objection to some solutions to the problem of evil, particularly to sceptical theism, is that if there are such great goods that flo...