Alexander Pruss's Blog

Humans are ridiculous. Humans are only ridiculous if there is a being much greater than humans. So, there is a being much greater than hu...

It is not inappropriate to have a level of respect for human beings at least as great as what would be fitting for beings in the image and ...

There are four main families of views of who we are: Bodies (or organisms) Brains (or at least cerebra) Body-soul composites Souls. F...

From childhood, I remember the Polish Christmas carol “Amidst the Silence of Night” from around the beginning of the 19th century, and I re...

In a number of recent posts, I argued that mid-sized objects like ourselves start microscopic. All my arguments so far relied on relativity....

Here’s a valid argument with plausible premises: A finite being has finite value. Any being with finite value may be permissibly sacrific...

Eliminativism holds that our standard folk-psychological concepts of mental functioning—say, thoughts, desires, intentions and awareness—hav...

Alice is a two-dimensional object. Suppose Alice’s simple parts fill a round region of space. Then Alice is round, right? Perhaps not! Ima...

Imagine that beings like us come into existence at the very first moment of time and they are the only contingent beings. To aid imagination...

Some evils are not just very bad. They are affronts to human dignity . But those evils, paradoxically, provide an argument for the existence...

One way to look at the difference between the deaths of humans and brute animals is to say that the death of a human typically deprives the ...

All humans have dignity because they are humans. Humans do not have dignity because of an extrinsic property. So, being human isn't an e...

Readers here may be interested in this post of mine on Prosblogion.

There are two major families of views on our relationship to the biological world. On animalism , we are animals of the species homo s...