Alexander Pruss's Blog

Human law is a blunt instrument. We often replace the thing that we actually care about by a proxy for it, because it makes the law easier t...

There are two ways of thinking about the ethics of consent. On the first approach, there are complex prohibitions against non-consensual tr...

In ethics, we seek a theory of obligation whose predictions match our best intuitions. Suppose that explorers on the moon find a booklet wi...

It seems that every mathematical structure (there are some technicalities as to how to define it) could metaphysically be the correct descri...

The following simple and valid argument came out of discussions with Mark Murphy (who has a forthcoming book that contains related arguments...

Consider the following argument form: It would be good if A were forbidden (respectively, permitted). Therefore, probably, A ...