Alexander Pruss's Blog

I’ve been wondering what to allow and what to disallow in terms of AI. I decided to treat AI as basically persons and I put this in my Metap...

A famous Socratic question is whether virtue can be taught. This argument may seem to settle the question: If vice can be taught, virtue c...

As a teacher, I have many opportunities to cause minor inconveniences in the lives of my students. And subjectively it often feels like when...

I had three family members turn away from me while I read two prepared philosophical sentences, using three different masks and no mask, and...

In case anybody is curious how I am teaching right now, it’s like this. When we were first informed we would be teaching online, I emailed m...

I looked at my teaching evaluations from the fall.  There were some useful suggestions.  And one that was particularly amusing: background m...

A colleague mentioned how nice it would be to have a SMART Board in one of our classrooms for when he teaches philosophical writing, so he c...

I like to use the stone argument as a warm-up in a philosophy of religion class. But it's actually kind of tricky to use. He...

Just came across this in Augustine's The Teacher : Who is so foolishly curious as to send his son to school to learn what the ...

I am teaching logic, for my first time. It's a tools course for grad students, covering the basic logical tools that are of g...

In Canon 833 , the Catholic Church requires various categories of persons to make a formal profession of faith and, by a later ru...

For a long time, based largely on the Meno , I've been under the impression that Plato interdefines knowledge and teaching. Her...

Some background Progressive folk in the second half of the twentieth century thought that cohabitation would improve the prospects for marri...

In case anybody's thought that the trolley problem is made-up, here it is , for real, with even higher stakes.