Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider this strong meaning-permanence thesis: There being a permanent end to all humanly relevant events would render all of our present...

Much of the contemporary analytic discussion of Pascal’s Wager has focused on technical questions about how to express Pascal’s Wager formal...

Suppose that starting this year (2019), I and all people who are important to me will do the following: We will live for 20 years on a delig...

Suppose a dog lives forever. Assuming the dog stays roughly dog-sized, there is only a finite number of possible configurations of the dog’s...

Suppose a version of open theism on which facts about future free choices have non-trivial truth values which God doesn’t know. Then here is...

Consider the crucible of character theodicy, that we are permitted by God to meet with great evils in order to form a character with virtues...

The standard mathematical definition is a set is finite provided that its cardinality is a natural number. But what are the natural numbers?...

As an initiation rite, Brazil's Satere-Mawe people make gloves with hundreds of bullet ants woven in, stinger pointing inward,...

Death is the great non-moral evil. Therefore, the problem of non-moral evil is, in the main, the problem of death: Is an omnipote...

(Cross-posted on prosblogion.) Let's say I climb Mt. Everest, and then enjoy a delightful view from the top. But as I climb the mountai...

By "death" in this post, I shall mean the permanent cessation of the existence of a person. I do not know if death occurs (...