Alexander Pruss's Blog

We can think of the optimalist theory of ultimate explanation as the claim: Necessarily, that reality is for the best explains everything....

There are three views about ultimate explanations of reality: Nihilism: There is no ultimate explanation of reality. Onticism: The ultima...

Optimalism holds that, of metaphysical necessity, the best world is actualized. There are two ways to understand “the best world”: (1) the ...

On a Humean metaphysics, energy conservation implies a vast conspiracy in the arrangement of things throughout spacetime, somewhat like this...