Alexander Pruss's Blog

Let’s say I have a friend who needs cheering up as she has had a lot of things not go her way. I know that she is definitely a better badmin...

I wonder if it's rational to choose to play a game precisely in order to win. Winning is a practice-internal goal. Does this goal make s...

Is winning a game always worthwhile? Consider this solitary game: I guess a number, and if my number is different from the number of particl...

A standard case of goal-directed activity is where I pursue a goal because the goal is worth achieving either intrinsically or in light of f...