Alexander Pruss's Blog

There is a certain kind of symmetry between praise and blame. We praise someone who incurs a cost to themselves by going above and beyond ob...

Sometimes supererogation is defined by a conjunction of a positive evaluation of performing the action and a denial of a negative evaluation...

Wright and Bengson note an apparent intuitive asymmetry in our side-effect judgments. We blame people for not avoiding bad effects, even wh...

I’ve been thinking about the phrase “ x should know that s ”. (There is probably a literature on this, but blogging just wouldn’t be as muc...

Suppose: Alice sacrifices her life to protect her innocent comrades. Bob decides that if he ever has the opportunity to sacrifice his lif...

I suspect that many philosophers would rather have their work be criticized as being morally perverse than as being stupid or merely ...