Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider this thesis, which both Augustine and Aquinas would accept: Value supervenes on being (VSB): How valuable reality is is determine...

I think the historical Aquinas’ solution to how God is one in three persons is a relative identity view that posits two kinds of identity: ...

There are three views about ultimate explanations of reality: Nihilism: There is no ultimate explanation of reality. Onticism: The ultima...

An old idea in philosophy, going back to Plato, is that things that are becoming are less beings than things that are timeless. This is a m...

Back in April , I suggested that there are two possible privation theories concerning evil: every evil is a privation for every evil, wh...

I wonder if the haecceity of a thing isn't identical with its esse .

Here is a suggestive Thomistic line of thought in favor of the essentiality of origins—i.e., the principle that the causes of things are ess...

Pluralists about ways of being say that there are multiple ways to be (e.g., substance and accident, divine being and finite being, the ten ...

Suppose a cause C produces horses, in the following way: When C produces a horse, a horse instantly comes into existence made out of som...

These claims are really plausible: I exist because I was caused by my parents. My having been caused by my parents is a fact about me. My ...

Some theologians say that God doesn't exist--God is beyond being. Here is one way to make sense of their claim: Non-relational cla...

Let us suppose that I am playing a nice game of Xiangqi with my daughter. The pieces are wooden, with painted red or black characte...