Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider facts like: Soon you will be in pain. Eventually, you'll forget. That sad experience is already behind you. What is ...

Much reflection on "reproductive ethics" is in fact about the prevention or nullification of reproduction (e.g., contraception and...

Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument contends that it is impossible for one to form a language by oneself. Here's a c...

This is just a progress report, a promissory note without much argument. I've been thinking a lot about naturalism and person...

A traditional staple of cosmological arguments is that at some point after one has established that there is a First Cause, one applie...

Say that an entity E has age T at t if and only if E began to exist exactly at t - T [note 1] Observe that the age of an e...

According to the A-theory of time, there is an objective difference between past, present and future. What the difference consist...

Necessarily, having the same kind of genuine bliss for an infinite amount of time is intrinsically better for one than having it...

In 2010, data from your brain is scanned and recorded in duplicate on two hard drives, while the original is destroyed. One hard ...

A standard necessary condition for a property P of a substance x to be intrinsic is the loneliness condition: x could have P with...

You are a philosophical researcher who has concluded that the only four metaethical positions that have any serious plausibility are n...

Say that p is prior to q in the order of explanation provided that p enters into some explanation of q . One might think that...

The locution "...is the set of..." occurs all over philosophy (2365 times in JSTOR 's philosophy collection). Sometimes ...

The concept of a species is quite important to an Aristotelian metaphysics. All the members of an Aristotelian species have qualit...

There are two accounts of lying. If one asks a child, one will likely hear that to lie is to say something that isn't true, and t...