Alexander Pruss's Blog

This is an attempt to make an argument for the natural immortality of the soul from the premise that the soul has a proper operation that is...

Suppose that today at noon, Felix the cat enters a time machine and travels back to the time of the dinosaurs, where he spends the rest of h...

A perdurantist who believes that particles are fundamental will typically think that the truly fundamental physical entities are instantaneo...

One of the main problems with perdurance is thought to be that it makes intrinsic properties be primarily properties of slices, and only der...

Here are some desiderata for a view of the persistence of objects: Ordinary objects can change with respect to intrinsic properties. Ordi...

Suppose I could get into a time machine and instantly travel forward by a hundred years. Then over the next hundred (external) years I don’t...

Fido exists now because of various things Fido did a couple of minutes ago, such as breathe, pump blood with his heart, etc. So, it seems, F...

The traditional Christian view that God is unchanging has been accused of being a fruit of Greek ideals of perfection (and what's wr...

It would be bad for me to permanently cease to exist in five minutes. But why? Suppose first a metaphysics of time on which the...

On the traditional understanding of Christ's Incarnation, Christ has two minds—a human mind and a divine mind—even though he is one ...

There seems to be a problem for the conjunction of Special Relativity and perdurantism.  Maybe this is a standard problem that has a standa...