Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here’s a way that an atheist could undercut the consensus gentium argument (the argument for theism based on how much belief in God or gods...

An evolutionary debunking argument against theism can be employed defensively or offensively by an atheist. Applied defensively, it is a res...

Suppose presentism is true and truths about other times are grounded in tensed facts, such as the fact that there were once dinosaurs. Give...

If God didn’t create anything, pantheism (everything is God), panetheism (everything is in God or is God) and cosmopsychism (the whole of re...

On abundant theories of properties (whether Platonic universals or tropes), for every predicate, or at least every predicate satisfied by so...

One occasionally wonders what theism adds to Natural Law ethics. Here is one example. Q1: Why are artistic endeavors good? Here, Natural...

When a state legislates, it often carves out very specific exceptions to the legislation. Sometimes, of course, one is worried that the exce...

Consider the following variant of the argument from hiddenness: If God exists, no mature human is ignorant of God’s existence through no f...

There is some pleasing initial symmetry between how a theist (or at least Jew, Christian or Muslim) can explain features of human nature by ...

Sometimes theists are accused of anthropomorphism in their concept of God. But it is important to note that theists hold that God is the ent...

Let’s assume two theses: Humean view of causation. Mental causalism: mental activity requires some mental states to stand in causal relat...

A lot of people identify as spiritual but not religious. It would be interesting to have statistics on how common this is among professional...

Andrea Dworkin argued that sexual intercourse between a man and a woman is always wrong because it involves a violation of the woman's b...

Some naturalists say that theism needlessly complicates our view of the world by positing that in addition to the material concr...

I have argued elsewhere , as my colleague Trent Dougherty also has and earlier, that when we understand simplicity rightly, theism...

One of our graduate students, Matt Wilson, suggested an analogy between Pascal's Wager and the question about whether to promote or ...

Consider: Many instances of F have explanations fitting an evolutionary explanatory schema. There are no instances of F that...

There are many large-scale sceptical scenarios: brains in vats, evil demons, anti-inductive worlds, evolutionary scenarios that lead as...

Here's one way to formulate the argument from pain against theism: "Granted, beings like us need an intense sensation normally trig...

The following argument is valid, and is sound if we take the conditional in (2) to be material. (Premise) In despairing, one e...