Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here’s an option that is underexplored: theistic Humeanism. There are two paths to it. The path from orthodoxy: Start with a standard thei...

In an earlier post , I said that an account that insists that all fundamental causation is simultaneous but secures the diachronic aspects o...

Converse essentiality of qualitative origins holds that if possible objects x and y have the same qualitative causal history—i.e., their i...

Suppose a burner is turned on, a pot is heated, and the water in the pot is boiled. On occasionalism, the heating of the pot is caused only ...

In physical laws, there are a number of numerical parameters. Some of these parameters are famously part of the fine-tuning problem, but all...

According to the Lewisian best system analysis of laws, a proposition p is a fundamental law if and only if it is an axiom in the...