Alexander Pruss's Blog

I think a thought. For each thought I think derivatively, there is a unique entity that thinks it non-derivatively. On standard perdurant...

One of the old puzzles of Christology is why it is that in us the soul and body together compose a person, but they do not do so in Christ. ...

Entertain this thought: There is a unique last thought that anyone ever thinks and it’s not true. Or, more briefly: The last thought i...

There is a vast and rather radical diversity in the inner conscious lives of human beings. Start with the differences in dreams: some people...

Andrew Bailey formulated and defended the Priority Principle (PP), that we think our thoughts in a primary rather than inherited way. His m...

One of the motivations for denying divine simplicity is the plausibility of the claim that: There is a multiplicity of divine thoughts, wh...

Unfortunately, most of the forms of exercise I do are too intense for me to think hard while exercising, though perhaps my subconscious is d...

I’ve been thinking about how well Descartes’ cogito argument works given the following plausisble thesis: Every perception, including intr...

Occasionally, people have thought that one can refute determinism as follows: If determinism is true, then all our thinking is determined....

A question I haven’t seen explored much by contemporary neo-Aristotelian metaphysics is that of matter ill-suited to the form. Is it metaphy...

Causal finitism says that nothing can have infinitely many causes. Interestingly, we can turn causal finitism around into a definition of th...

Only things with minds think. Minds don’t have minds. So, minds don’t think. Corollary: We think with minds, hence we are not minds. T...

There is an old joke: to find out if a computer is conscious, you program it to tell the truth, and you ask it if it is. The point behind th...

In a lovely recent paper , Andrew Bailey has argued for the priority principle, that we think our thoughts not derivatively from another ent...

Every thought is a trope of a thinker. There are thoughts. So, there are tropes.

"I think therefore I am." It's hard to dispute either the argument or the conclusion. But while I undoubtedly exist, do I ha...

Typically when we say that some course of action is unthinkable, we have already thought it.  Perhaps there is an equivocation, though.  May...

A standard solution to general sceptical problems is to move to an externalist account of content. Grossly oversimplifying, if what makes a...

A colleague asked me what I would say about a choice between a really minor wrongdoing and an action that has really bad consequences....

Consider the concept of a judging . A judging is a believing operating occurrently and consciously (this is stipulative). Someti...