Alexander Pruss's Blog

A correspondent sent me a link to this really nice apologetics site with links to articles by good people (like John Earman and Fred ...

Here is the thesis I will argue for: that x intentionally kills y does not entail that x intended that y die. I need a relevance ...

The process of conception is very chancy, with a randomly timed act of intercourse having a significantly less than one in ten pr...

The problem of evil that Augustine struggled with so mightily was neither the inductive problem of evil that so exercises contempo...

The Entailment Thesis for truthmakers is that If x makes p true and p entails q , then x makes q true. Mulligan et al. have...

When out observing at my sort-of dark location, I realized that when Scripture says that the heavens declare the glory of God, Sc...

By "worldly states of affairs (WSOAs)", I mean existing states of affairs, say of the Armstrong variety. These are not ...

Premises: If there are any Molinist counterfactuals, there are ungrounded true contingent propositions. Propositions reporting di...

St. Anselm believes that the least of our sins puts us in an infinite debt to God and is infinitely bad. Anselm's own argum...

(Cross-posted on prosblogion.) Let's say I climb Mt. Everest, and then enjoy a delightful view from the top. But as I climb the mountai...

Start with these premises: A (human) community is obligated to supply those of the basic needs of its members that can be met, u...

Extend English by adding a new kind term "ersoh", and allowing quantification over ersohs. Now the following stipulations ...

One reason to believe in mereological universalism is that mereological universalism lets one's ontology include artifacts tables ...

Hypothesis: A society where romantic relationships and marriages are seen as primarily about emotional union between two adults i...

Back when I was a graduate student, I learned explicitly from Nagel's The Possibility of Altruism that states of myself that...