Alexander Pruss's Blog

It’s clear to me that each of two assertions could individually meet the evidential bar for assertibility, but that their conjunction, being...

Plausibly, a belief that p is justified only if one has good evidence that p . But what about a case where instead of having evidence for a...

If I resent your doing A and you didn't do A , then my resentment was perhaps justified (if I was justified in thinking you did A ) but...

According to subjective Bayesianism, the only constraints on prior probabilities are that they be consistent and, for contingent e...

According to the truth norm, p is assertible if and only if p is true. The truth norm is one of four main proposals for a norm...

Most entries, like 8x8, in the multiplication table I know off the top of my head. But some may require a quick calculation. If y...

Justification consists in God's forgiveness of our sins. What does this forgiveness consist in? At least partly in the takin...

Occasionally, I've been offering theistic arguments that border on begging the question. Here, for instance, is one that's bas...

"You know you are a moderately competent art history graduate student. You are visiting a 15th century Italian church Profess...

Mathematicians have two kinds of intuition. A speculative intuition occurs when they think about a problem, perhaps think quite a l...

One of the routes to being epistemically justification that p is true is to be told by a reliable reporter that p . This is justific...

Reformed Christians believe that justification—the event by virtue of which a person comes to be saved—consists in the j...

The quote in the title is from 2004, and concerns a city's plan to shut down an adult business , once evidence of illegality ...

Consider a revealed religion, say Christianity. I will use "the Sources" for the locus or loci where revelation is believe...

Suppose a supernatural being tells me, and I know that he is speaking truthfully, that if I so choose, he can make sure that over...

It seems to me that there is an epistemological asymmetry when relying on the good or bad actions of others. Karla has a sterling character...

There are two fairly standard claims about love: benevolence--willing the good--towards the beloved is an essential component of love, and l...

I am going to argue that for all anybody knows, evolutionary science might develop in such a way that an Intelligent Design (ID) argument wo...

This is a fun little riddle, coming from a discussion with Dan Johnson. At t 2 Mary believes q because she believes p . At t 1 ( t 1 t 2), ...