Alexander Pruss's Blog

Hedonic adaptation is the theory that individual humans have different basic levels of subjective life satisfaction (SLS). When major chang...

We have an infinite future. If eternalism is true, then anything that has an infinite future is infinite. We are finite. So, eternalism ...

Either AI with human-like behavior is a person or is not. We should not deliberately produce AI with human-like behavior when that AI is a...

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...

Years ago, I read a clever argument against physician assisted suicide that held that medical procedures need informed consent, and informed...

I’ve been thinking a bit about the afterlife for non-human animals. The first thought is that there is a relevant difference between human a...

Accidents are more intimately dependent on substance than substantial forms on matter. If (1) is true and God can make accidents survive w...

To resolve the many gods and evil god objections to Pascal’s Wager, we need a way of comparing different infinite positive and negative outc...

Aquinas believes that it follows from omnipotence that: Any being that depends on creatures can be created by God without its depending on...

Roughly, Aquinas thinks of a substance as something that: is existentially independent of other things, and is complete in its nature. ...

Corruptionist Thomists think that after death and before the resurrection, our souls exist in a disembodied state and have mental states, bu...

The exercise of generosity is good to have. So is its possession. How do the two compare? One might think the possession of generosity only...

Every so often I worry that my fear of death (which, I have to confess, is more a fear of non-existence than a fear of hell) shows that I la...

I want to confess something: I do not find the problem of evil compelling. I think to myself: Here, during the blink of an eye, there are ho...

One of the main philosophical objections to dualist survivalism, the view that after death and prior to the resurrection we continue existin...

If we are animals, can we survive in a disembodied state, having lost all of our bodies, retaining only soul or form? Here is a standard th...

Deontology is true. A finite being could not have the kind of dignity that deontology ascribes to human beings. So, human beings are infi...

If there is no afterlife, then promoting justice sometimes requires acting unjustly. Promoting justice never requires acting unjustly. So...

According to dualist survivalism, at death our bodies perish but we continue to exist with nothing but a soul (until, Christians believe, th...

There is a philosophical (in the popular sense of the word--professional philosophers don't tend to defend this) outlook on death that s...