Alexander Pruss's Blog

In some video games, it feels like I am doing the in-game character’s actions and in others it feels like I am playing a character that does...

Consider two examples of pseudonymity: Samuel Clemens writes Life on the Mississippi , signing it “Mark Twain”. Konrad Kujau writes The H...

I am finding myself frustrated trying to figure out whether the fundamental bearers of aesthetic properties are mental states or things out ...

It seems that fiction can't lie because, well, it's fiction. But suppose you are reading a novel, and it says: "A woman wearing...

This argument is valid: If God exists in any way, he exists in the supreme way of existing. If God does not exist in the supreme way of ex...

You're attending a performance of Wit . Vivian is dying of cancer. If you're human, you have compassion for her. You don't want ...

When Bob is the lead protagonist of a work, his presence is essential to the plot. Accordingly, the rules of the world seem to b...

One of the minor sadnesses of life is when you finish a work of fiction and then you miss a character from there, wishing for more inter...

A student tells me: "Patrick Jones stole my laptop. Could I get an extension?" But the student's laptop has never...

The kind of fantasy and science fiction that I like describes a possible world as it were from the inside (i.e., the sentences ar...

Different genres of literature are apt to give insights in different areas of philosophy: science fiction: metaphysics and mind mystery:...

If the following proposition were true, we would have made some progress in answering the deductive problem of evil: The actual w...

There is a very nice, and not at all ad hoc , theistic explanation of why there exist beings who like telling stories. Creation ...