Alexander Pruss's Blog

In the case of non-epistemic goods, it’s an obvious feature of life that someone there is a choice to be made by an individual between their...

Suppose I discover some fact that I never end up using for anything, or even occurrently thinking about after the discovery. Now, knowledge ...

One of the unattractive ingredients of the Sleeping Beauty problem is that Beauty gets memory wipes. One might think that normal probabilis...

Suppose that a fair coin has been flipped in my absence. If it’s heads, there is an independent 50% chance that I will be irresistably brain...

I've been thinking about the following variant of Sleeping Beauty . A coin is tossed on Sunday, out of your sight. As usual, if th...

Suppose that Jim lives a normal human life from the year 2000 to the year 2100. Without looking at a clock, what probability shoul...

A coin is tossed without the result being shown to you. If it's heads, you are put in a sensory deprivation chamber for 61 minutes....

As usual, a fair coin is flipped on Sunday, without you seeing the result, and then you go to sleep. Experiment 1 (standard Slee...

Experiment 1: A fair coin is flipped on Sunday, without you seeing the result, and then you go to sleep. Tails: You get woken up Mo...