Alexander Pruss's Blog

A decade ago, the end of World War II was 54 years in the past. Right now, the end of World War II is 64 years in the past. If A...

Here is the right way to see A-theory (this is particularly accurate as an account of Tom Crisp's presentism). There are infinit...

According to most proponents of presentism, propositions are tensed. Thus, when yesterday you said that it is raining and I said it to...

Bryan Weaver and Fiona Woollard seem to think that there are people whose needs for erotic companionship could not be met by one ...

An interesting disagreement among orthodox Christians, even among orthodox Catholics, is whether the devil should be hated. I have ru...

There is an interesting study on the effects of clean smells on virtuous behavior .

See this fun story .

Andrea Westlund in her piece "The Reunion of Marriage" (in the Monist's Marriage issue) gives an account of the "co...

Let "@" be the name of the actual world. The proposition expressed by (1) in English is not entailed by the propositi...

A curious thought hit me today: What could it mean for something, say pollution, to be bad for the earth? We have, I think, a fairly g...

Tarski's definition is often noted—typically critically—as being applicable only to the languages he gave it in. Thus, he defined...

So last night we were out observing (through telescopes; the anthropology was merely accidental), and there were some guys in the...

Yesterday, I was interested in a paper because I was interested in that paper. Here's the story. I was interested in a paper...

Suppose that only propositions can be true or false. In a much earlier post I expressed a suspicion of conjunctive definitions. But ...

(Premise) Every basic kind of desire is either appropriate or a distortion of an appropriate kind of desire. (Premise) The des...