Alexander Pruss's Blog

One of the old puzzles of Christology is why it is that in us the soul and body together compose a person, but they do not do so in Christ. ...

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

A question I haven’t seen explored much by contemporary neo-Aristotelian metaphysics is that of matter ill-suited to the form. Is it metaphy...

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

Yesterday I realized something that should have been obvious: there are two separate interaction problems for dualism. Metaphysics: How do...

Here’s a fun argument for dualism. What is a part of the body is a matter of social convention. Persons are explanatorily prior to social...

Here’s an interesting thesis: If x has the y s among its parts, and for each z among the y s, x can survive losing z without gaining a...

Here’s a difficult question: Does an artificial heart literally become a body part of the patient? And here’s a line of thought suggestive ...

I thought I had a nice argument against materialism, but it didn’t work out. Still, it’s fun to think about the argument and why it doesn’t ...

The doctrines of incarnation, resurrection and real presence certainly require us to believe ordinary language existence claims about bodies...

I have a post on soul-body interaction on Biola's Center for Christian Thought blog that may be of interest to my readers here.

In Ephesians 4:25, Paul talks of us Christians being all members of one another. Karol Wojtyla thought of romantic love as directed at mutua...

Suppose that as I slept, my body has been switched on me in the middle of the night, but all my memories were kept intact. Now it...

I'm told that a version of the following argument is somewhere in C.S. Lewis: (Premise) Our embodiment is universally seen a...

While I'm inclined to agree that it's wrong to use a natural human system (body part, aspect of the soul, naturally grou...

The following scenario is adapted from Keith Laumer's story "The Body Builders" : Technology reaches the point that our...

While my philosophical views attach a great deal of importance to the body, my feeelings often do not go along with that. I use...