Alexander Pruss's Blog

Both philosophers and mathematicians attempt to give nontrivial necessary and sufficient conditions for various properties. But philoso...

Suppose someone proposes a philosophical account of the form: x is F if and only if x is G 1 and x is G 2 and x is G 3 . There ...

X knows p if and only if X and p stand in the most natural relation whose extension in the actual world closely overlaps with ...

This is a bit cynical, but while reading Spinoza I was really struck by the prevalence of the following implicit line of philosophical arg...