Alexander Pruss's Blog

Impossible things don't happen. (Oddly enough, on Platonist views of modality on which necessity is an abstract property of abstr...

One standard answer is this: An atheist can love God under a a description different from standard theistic ones (cf. this artic...

You have never been older than today. (The posts in this occasional series are inspired by Richard Gale's account of how when asked by h...

Suppose John loves Mary "for being a baroness" (and for what follows from being a baroness), but does not love him for a...

This post is inspired by this discussion . Is the following sentence true? (1) If the borogoves were mimsy, then the borogoves were m...

Occasionally, the Old Testament (OT) prohibitions on same-sex sexual activity are used as part of a Christian theological case for the...

Apparently, a predominant view is that the ordinary soldier who follows decent military orders (ones that do not transgress jus in bello ) i...

Dear Public Diary, Can anything be done about the perverse rewards of academic life in philosophy, where a new way of being wrong ...

Suppose I have superhuman hearing. While you are listening to Beethoven's Ninth, I hear, with great precision, every single ...

I have learned at least one very valuable thing from Hume: there is no real metaphysical problem in dualist mind-body causation or...

McTaggart is famous for his argument that there is no such thing as time as it is commonly conceived--there is only a sequence wi...

Hedonism is the claim that how well off one is is a function of pleasure. Suppose you experienced the greatest pleasure of your life betwee...

Merry Christmas everyone! I have nothing profound to say for Christmas, so here is a bit of philosophy. The Logos became a human...

Not long ago, I prepared for myself a Plucker eBook of the Church Fathers, based on the great collection at New Advent . With permission of...

St. Athanasius insists that it was crucial for Christ's redemption of us that Christ both share in the divine nature and in th...