Alexander Pruss's Blog

We can think of the optimalist theory of ultimate explanation as the claim: Necessarily, that reality is for the best explains everything....

In yesterday’s post , I showed that if an open-futurist is impressed by a certain plausible-sounding logical fatalism argument based on biva...

Consider this seemingly standard argument for logical fatalism. It is true that you will ϕ or it is true that you will not ϕ . If someth...

In my dissertation, I defended a causal power account of modality on which something is possible just in case either it’s actual or somethin...

Suppose an ever-truthful dictator tells you that he is interested in the truth value of a proposition p solely about the laws of ...

Here is a curious fact. Open futurists and fatalists both are committed to the claim that It is not true that tomorrow I will ...

In my previous post , I discussed logical fatalism and the options available. One of these options I labeled as "compatibilism" w...

This post is just an attempt by me to work something out for myself. Maybe it doesn't interest anybody else. People who accept an Arist...

Some people deny the Law of Excluded Middle (LEM--for all p, p or not-p) because they are convinced it leads to fatalism. But they really s...