Alexander Pruss's Blog

Say that a fact is temporally pure about an instantaneous time t provided that it holds solely in virtue of how things are at t . (The ter...

Zeno wants Alice dead and he has the following plan. He slows down Alice’s functioning—say, by cooling her or by sending her around the eart...

The following seem quite plausible: It is possible for an object both (a) to have both a first and a last moment of its existence and (b) to...

A number of my posts are exercises in philosophical imagination rather than serious philosophical theories. These exercises can ha...

Presentists think that the past and future are unreal but the present is real. I was going to do a tongue-in-cheek post about an opposed...

I was telling my kids about eliminative materialism, the view that there are only material objects, and that there are no minds, persons, be...

Start with Zeno's paradox of the arrow. Zeno notes that over every instant of time t 0 , an arrow occupies one and the same spat...

Here is a version of the Grim Reaper paradox. Say that a Grim Reaper is a being that has the following properties: It wakes up at a t...