Alexander Pruss's Blog

Everything that exists is intrinsically valuable. Shadows and holes are not intrinsically values. So, neither shadows nor holes exist.

When someone’s walking speed is two miles per hour, there are not two things, “one mile per hour walkings”, that are present. When we say t...

The ordinary notion of a hole is kind of dubious. Consider the hole in the thin wavy sheet of rubber on the right. What is the shape of tha...

Suppose substantivalism about space is correct. Imagine now that the following happens to a slice of swiss cheese: the space where the holes...

On the face of it, the ontology of caves is just like that of holes. But there do seem to be some significant differences. A hole...