Alexander Pruss's Blog

It is a truism that life is short. But this truism is in tension with the very plausible claim that life-long commitments are ha...

On the face of it, the ontology of caves is just like that of holes. But there do seem to be some significant differences. A hole...

With Madoff getting 150 years in jail, it's topical to say something about Ponzi schemes. So let me make this remark: There are possibl...

I think Pascal's wager could be seen as a way of destroying most of standard decision theory in the case of many agents. The ...

Last night, I was observing a portion of the Pipe Nebula , which is a dark lane of dust obscuring the Milky Way. It was kind of cool:...

Suppose: Some events have causes that strictly precede them in time (i.e., the two events are never simultaneous). If E causes ...

According to the prosentential theory of truth, sentences that make use of "is true" as a predicate are to be paraphras...

It is always tempting somehow to get rid of the predicate "is true" in order to escape the Liar Paradox on the cheap. I...

Consider the claim: "Snow is white" is true because snow is white. Say that a minimalist about truth is someone who thi...

Tarski's (T) schema says that: X is true if, and only if, p in every case in which X is a "name" for the senten...

There are two hard problems of omniscience. One is metaphysical—how can a God who has aseity and is simple know contingent facts....

If you don't like centered propositions, drop the "centered" from the following. I am using the phrase "knowl...

I am reading Tarski's "The Semantic Conception of Truth" and came across this paragraph which I just had to blog: It...

Suppose propositions exist, and truth is a property that some but not other propositions have. Could truth, then, be an intrinsi...

Typical Platonists admit all kinds of "useful" entities in the Platonic heaven such as sets, classes, properties and pr...