Alexander Pruss's Blog

Stump and Kretzmann give three main concepts of simultaneity in their famous paper : T-simultaneity between items in time E-simultaneity ...

This is probably the simplest argument for the timelessness of God, and somehow I’ve missed out on it in the past: God does not change. C...

I’ve been thinking a lot this semester, in connection with my Philosophy of Time seminar, about whether the A-theory of time—the view that t...

Famously, Boethius says that an eternal being, unlike a merely temporally everlasting being, embraces all of its infinite life at once, “pos...

Argument One: If from x ’s point of view there is an objective fact about what time it presently is, then x is in time. If x knows an o...

One can only know a proposition when it is true. One can only know a proposition when one exists. Thus, one can only know a proposition i...

Classical theism holds that God is timeless and knows all objective truths. According to A-theories of time, objective truths change (e.g., ...

I think God is timeless. For a long time I’ve been vaguely worried by the thought that on a B-theory of time, a timeless being is like a bei...

Consider the standard argument against the Incarnation: Everything that is God is F (omnipotent, omniscient, impassible, etc.). Everythi...

All reality is such that it can be known perfectly from the point of view of God. The point of view of God is eternal and timeless. Thus,...

If presentism is true, then everything that exists, exists presently. Anything that exists presently is temporal. God exists. So, if pre...

(Premise) If presentism is correct, it is impossible that something has a timeless existence. (Premise) Possibly, there is no...