Alexander Pruss's Blog

I am holding a contest for the best argument against the thesis that some property is a person. There are a number of rules. The...

I just posted a paper defending a deflationary theory of diachronic identity.

Why think that a property couldn't be a person? 1. "Properties are abstract." But "abstract" and "c...

1. Self-help book idea: A Year Without a Lie . 2. A number of vices in some sense require a willingness to lie. One can't ...

It is plausible that for a human being not to have sight would be to suffer a great natural evil. If, then, we can produce a theo...

Say that a property A of x is synchronic if its being had by x depends solely on what happens at precisely one instantaneous ti...

Death is the great non-moral evil. Therefore, the problem of non-moral evil is, in the main, the problem of death: Is an omnipote...

That there is a reason of strength s to do A is itself a reason of strength s to do A . Why? Well, suppose I can't see an...

The standard criticism of verificationism is that the verificationist criterion of meaning is self-defeating, fails to work for un...

Assuming non-theism, a global nuclear war in the 20th century would have been a reasonable prediction to make (and indeed some ma...

This discussion thread on an amateur astronomy site seems to me to be rather relevant to philosophical accounts of perception.

Saturday night, at the Central Texas Astronomical Society's dark site, M 33 looked to me both like a spiral galaxy and like i...

It is usual to distinguish between a piece of language and its context. This distinction is, I think, bogus. Whether "flies...

It seems very plausible that if event B is caused by event (perhaps conjunctive or disjunctive) A , where A contains the full se...

In case you've ever wondered about the question in the title of this post, you can stop wondering: the answer is negative. He...