Alexander Pruss's Blog

I think a really interesting philosophical question is the definition of life. Standard biological accounts fail to work for God and angels....

Here is an interesting result. If the Biblical account of creation is true, then Plantinga’s Trans-World Depravity (TWD) thesis is false. Al...

Here’s another try at an account of life. Maybe: x is alive if and only if x has a non-derivative self-representation. Consider: Anyth...

I have an empirical hypothesis that one of the main reasons why a lot of ordinary people think a machine can’t be conscious is that they thi...

Thanks to Adam Myers’ insightful comments , I’ve been thinking about the ways that natural law ethics concerns natures in two ways: on the s...

Of course, there are material things like oaks and people, and it’s distinct from immaterial things like angels. But for a long time I’ve be...

God is alive, angels are alive, people are alive, dogs are alive, worms are alive and trees are alive. What is it that makes them all be ali...

This is going to be very speculative, and I doubt it yields an orthodox account of transsubstantiation, but since there is some chance that ...

I will first argue that location is a multiply-realizable—i.e., functional—determinable. Then I will offer a sketch of what defines it...

Habits induces correlations between choices in similar epistemic circumstances. A person who has behaved courageously in the fac...

Christ is God and Christ is a human. God is unchanging and humans are changing. God is omnipresent and humans are spatiotemporally d...

Here are some thoughts on St Matthew's version of the Lord's Prayer, many taken from or loosely inspired by things people said at ou...