Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here is a big picture story about Newtonian mechanics: The state of the system at all times t  >  t 0 is explained by the initial condit...

Let’s assume: Faster-than-light travel is metaphysically possible in a special relativistic world. And let’s assume: In a special rela...

Suppose a rock is flying through the air northward, and God miraculously and instantaneously teleports the rock, without changing any of its...

Here are some plausible theses: Necessarily, an object that is in the same place at time t as it has been for some non-zero period of time ...