Alexander Pruss's Blog

We live in a deeply epistemically divided society, with lots of different views, including on some of the most important things. Say that t...

Suppose we have a group of perfect Bayesian agents with the same evidence who nonetheless disagree. By definition of “perfect Bayesian agent...

Conciliationists say that when you meet an epistemic peer who disagrees with you, you should alter your credence towards theirs. While there...

You and I are epistemic peers and we calculate a 15% tip on a very expensive restaurant bill for a very large party. As shared background in...

Suppose you and I are adding up a column of expenses, but our only interest is the last digit for some reason. You and I know that we are ep...

I assign a credence 0.75 to p and I find out that you assign credence 0.72 to it, despite us both having the same evidence and epistemic pr...

Two nights ago I had a dream. I was in the military, and we were being deployed, and I suddenly got worried about something like this line o...

This post is an illustration of how widely intuitions can differ. It is widely felt by presentists that presentism is needed for there to be...

When Jesus said to love one's neighbor, he was asked who was one's neighbor. When he said to love one's enemy, he wasn't ask...

I've been gradually realizing just how important it is to presume our ideological and political opponents to be motivated by pursuit of ...

Suppose I assign a credence p to some proposition and you assign a different credence q to it, even though we have the same evidence. ...

Suppose that Jim lives a normal human life from the year 2000 to the year 2100. Without looking at a clock, what probability shoul...

Consider the following sequence of events: You roll a fair die and it rolls out of sight. An angel appears to you and informs you tha...

Let A be the set of all the sexual activities that our society takes to be wrong. For instance, A will include rape, voyeurism, adult...

Here's something that surprised me when I noticed it, though it probably shouldn't have surprised me. The following can happe...

In Actuality, Possibility, and Worlds , I attribute to Spinoza the view that no belief is false (though I think i also emphasize that nothin...

Consider two different methods for what to do with the opinion of someone more expert than yourself, on a matter where both you and the expe...