Alexander Pruss's Blog

I was going to post the following as Deep Thoughts XLIII, in a series of posts meant to be largely tautologous or at least trivial statemen...

In the Republic , Plato says philosophy education shouldn’t start until age 30. I’ve long worried about Plato’s concern about providing youn...

An obvious definition of having a beginning is: x has a beginning provided that x exists at some time but there is an earlier time at which ...

Here is a hypothesis.

Say that an entity E has age T at t if and only if E began to exist exactly at t - T [note 1] Observe that the age of an e...