Alexander Pruss's Blog

Start with this: Dignity is an essential property of anything that has it. Necessarily, something has dignity if and only if it is a pers...

Consider: If God can create a stone he can’t lift, there is something he can’t do—namely, lift the stone. If God cannot create a stone he...

Some properties that a thing has partially or wholly explain other properties the thing has or doesn’t have. For instance, my having a body ...

Here's a plausible thesis: If it is of x's essence to be F, then Fness is prior to x. This thesis yields a fairly standard argument...

Two angels are playing chess. They are immaterial, but have the causal powers of moving physical pieces on the board. Along comes ...

My being seated now is causally explained by my having sat down. Suppose that my being seated now is an essential property of me...

I like to use the stone argument as a warm-up in a philosophy of religion class. But it's actually kind of tricky to use. He...