Alexander Pruss's Blog

I’ve had a grad student, Nathan Mueller, do an independent study in social epistemology in the hope of learning from him about the area (and...

I’ve been thinking about the phrase “ x should know that s ”. (There is probably a literature on this, but blogging just wouldn’t be as muc...

Some kinds of roles succeed in imposing norms on those in roles of that kind. For instance, friends should help each other because they are ...

Thesis: Marriage as a natural kind of relationships is a better theory than marriage as an institution defined by socially instituted right...

I've been thinking about roles such as being married, being a parent, being a sibling, being a second cousin, being a firefigh...

To identify myself in the relevant sense with some quality is to see that quality as embodying a particularly important feature of myself,...