Alexander Pruss's Blog

It seems that for a promise to be sincere, you have to intend to keep it. But this is false. Suppose you offer to lend me a microscope upon...

On a supervaluationist view of vagueness, a sentence such as “Bob is bald” corresponds to a large number of perfectly precise propositions, ...

Consider this argument against divine ineffability: Let p be the conjunction of all fundamental truths intrinsically about God (I'm thi...

Here's a fascinating study. By changing what was in front of the subjects on the questionnaire they were filling out, the subjects wer...

Magda is a spy. Her handler gives her a spiel consisting of ten statements that she is to make to her enemy contact. Magda has n...

Let's say you and I believe that there is life outside the solar system. But you're overconfident. So I tell you that t...

Either if N is a supermanifold, then there is a space ΠT*N of the cotangent bundle with reversed parity and it has a natural str...

The following seem plausible necessary conditions on sincerity: Assertion: If I sincerely asserted that p , I intended (at least...

This is a point exactly parallel to my last point about promising. It is widely thought that x can only sincerely say that p if ...

When we write down a complex logical argument, it seems there is a pretty good chance that while writing down the proof, we will write...