Alexander Pruss's Blog

Over the last couple of days I have realized that the laws of physics are rather more complex than they seem. The lovely equations like G  =...

Suppose a strong epistemic preference for simpler theories of the world. One might then think that a simulation hypothesis is automatically ...

Roughly speaking—but precisely enough for our purposes—Dembski’s criterion for the specified complexity of a system is that a ratio of two p...

It's oft stated that Ockham's razor favors the B-theory over the A-theory, other things being equal. But the theoretical gain here i...

I've been thinking through my intuitions about vagueness and mental states, especially conscious ones. It certainly seems natural to say...

One measure of the simplicity of a proposition is the length of the shortest sentence expressing the proposition. Unfortunately, this me...

Suppose the police have found one person involved in the JFK assassination. Then simplicity grounds may give us significant reason to th...

I will develop Dembski's specified complexity in a particular direction, which may or may not be exactly his, but which I think can be d...

A central part of Dembski's definition of specified complexity is a way of measuring whether an event E is surprising. This...