Alexander Pruss's Blog

It is tempting to think that legitimate and illegitimate authorities are both types of a single thing. One might not want to call that singl...

It is plausible that: Some of the fundamental dynamic laws of nature are given by differential equations. All fundamental dynamic laws of...

Consider three horses: Alexander's Bucephalus, Gandalf's Shadowfax and Dawn. Here, I am using "Dawn" as the name of a hors...

This may take back the central part of my argument about tautologously equivalent intentions. Suppose that Sally is a crime boss who really ...

The theory consists of two theses and two definitions. I will use → for indicative conditionals. And all my disjunctions will b...

The following argument is valid by disjunction introduction: I won't play the lottery. I won't play the lottery or I...

Consider the following two very plausible explanatory intuitions: Roses are flowers or violets are yellow because roses are flowe...