Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider such pairs of terms as: good — holy impressive — awe-full immoral — sinful promise — vow puzzle — mystery fearsome — s...

It is sometimes said that when science and theology conflict, this is because we are dealing with bad science or bad theology or b...

Consider this valid argument: If you deserve F from me, then F is owed [note 1] by me to you. (Premise) If I owe F to you, ...

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

It seems pretty clear that we have strong, though perhaps at times defeasible, reason to avoid cooperating in evil activities. H...

Thomson's violinist argument for abortion is based on an analogy between pregnancy and being coerced to serve as the life-support...

Consider the following two statements: We do not have good reason to believe evolutionary theory to be true. Scientific irrealism...

Mathematicians have two kinds of intuition. A speculative intuition occurs when they think about a problem, perhaps think quite a l...

Only those who have lived can die.

As usual, a fair coin is flipped on Sunday, without you seeing the result, and then you go to sleep. Experiment 1 (standard Slee...

On the material conditional interpretation, the propositional content of the indicative conditional "If p , then q " is p →...

The title of this post is a remark I heard Nuel Belnap make in the question period after a talk on free will (quoting from memory). Here, ...

I was reading St. Gregory of Nyssa's "On Infant's Early Deaths" . There, St. Gregory provides a two-fold theo...

Say that George chooses to do A knowledgeably provided that the beliefs on the basis of which George chooses to do A are in fac...

Frankfurt counterexamples to the Principle of Alternate Possibilities (PAP) have worried libertarians. However, they should have als...