Alexander Pruss's Blog

There are three views about ultimate explanations of reality: Nihilism: There is no ultimate explanation of reality. Onticism: The ultima...

Here’s a metaphysical view I haven’t seen: the fundamental obejcts (priority version) or the only objects (existence version) are universes,...

It is difficult to hold (a) Aquinas’ idea that in transubstantiation the accidents of bread and wine continue existing after the bread and w...

Consider this thesis: Every positive true proposition has a truthmaker. This seems plausible. But I think it is only reasonable to accep...

I used to think that the following would be an uncontroversial example of truthmaking: Any elephant is a truthmaker for the proposition th...

Nothing is greater than God in any sense. But a whole is greater at least in some sense than a proper part. Therefore: God is not a pr...

Some theists give reductive accounts of such phenomena as morality and proper function in ways that involve contingent divine ment...

The problem of evil that Augustine struggled with so mightily was neither the inductive problem of evil that so exercises contempo...

The Entailment Thesis for truthmakers is that If x makes p true and p entails q , then x makes q true. Mulligan et al. have...

It is fairly standard to say that the truthmaker of a proposition p is what makes p be true. But suppose we accept a non-deflat...

Say that a true proposition is ontologically ungrounded provided that it is not true because of any combination of what things e...

Jerry waltzes. According to the Platonist, this means that Jerry instantiates the universal waltzing . So, where initially we though...

The Grounding Homogeneity Thesis (GHT) is not a precise claim, but a guiding principle that, ceteris paribus, we should prefer philosoph...

Patricia is a person with a strange defect. She has tensed beliefs that she fails to update. For instance, she believes that the B...

Presentism holds that only presently occurring events exist. You and I are watching an exciting game of tennis. Our particular i...

On one of the best presentist accounts we have, namely that of Trenton Merricks , statements that some proposition p was or will be...

Say that a proposition p is "grounded" provided that it has its truth value solely in virtue of reality being a certain...