Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose there is a 75% chance that I have done a specific wrong thing yesterday. (Perhaps I have suffered from some memory loss.) What shoul...

Suppose that Alice wronged Bob, repented, and God forgave Alice for it. Bob, however, withholds his forgiveness. First, it is interesting to...

It is widely held that if you do wrong in culpable ignorance (ignorance that you are blameworthy for), you are culpable for the wrong you do...

When we talk of something as an unforgivable offense, we usually mean it is really a terrible thing. But if God doesn’t exist, then some ver...

Suppose something bad happens to my friend, and while I am properly motivated in the right degree to alleviate the bad, I just don’t feel b...

Bob has the belief that there are infinitely many people in a parallel universe, and that they wear numbered jerseys: 1, 2, 3, …. He also be...

It is a common intuition, especially among Christians, that attempts at immoral actions—say, attempted murder or attempted adultery—are just...

One of the interesting questions about Christian moral philosophy is how moral life differs if Christianity is correct from how it...

A lot of people think that someone who has succeeded in committing a murder has thereby done something morally worse than someone ...

(PAG) If the world at t 1 is in a state S 1 sufficient to cause it to be the case that I am guilty at a time t 2 > t 1 , and no a...