Alexander Pruss's Blog

I think we learn at least as much about ourselves as persons from literature as from science. This is surprising if physicalism is true.

In a number of cases of beauty, beauty is doubled up: there is the beauty in an abstract state of affairs and there is the beauty in that st...

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

One sometimes hears claims like: There are things that can be conveyed through X (poetry, novels, film, art, music, etc.) that cannot be ...

I've been imagining a strange scenario. I come across a text that I know for sure was generated by an entirely random process--say, the ...

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 ...

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:...

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