Alexander Pruss's Blog

(Premise) Only an actually existing event can be seen. (Premise) A wholly past event can be seen. Therefore, a wholly past ev...

According to the Christian tradition, sexual activity is impermissible unless engaged with procreation or union as a goal (the lat...

Just came across this in Augustine's The Teacher : Who is so foolishly curious as to send his son to school to learn what the ...

I've never heard the following version of the ontological argument put quite in this way, though there may be things in Anselm an...

Continuing my project of reading my hitherto unread reading assigned for the medieval comp, I've been reading Anselm's rep...

While looking through an edition of Ockham, I came across this interesting text: Other rules are given: (10) From an impossibilit...

In the second story of the first day of the Decameron , we have the story of how Giannotto tried to convince a Jewish friend named Abr...

I've been suspicious of divine ideas, but now I like what St Thomas does in S. Th. I.15 . St Thomas seems to be insisting that the...

The Tradition holds that Scripture has many senses. I found really striking what St Thomas does with this : "The author of ...

Suppose I have extremely good statistical evidence that a random member of the student body at some ordinary college (I am not tal...

Start with this intuition: all adulterous actions are intrinsically wrong. Therefore, any action that is intrinsically just like an ...

I've decided to step beyond the limits of the audio books available at librivox by using text to speech to generate audio books from Pr...

I used to think the following principle was certainly true, if → indicates subjunctive conditionals: If p → q and p is possib...

Consider this claim: Thesis: It is possible to have two worlds, w 1 and w 2 , and a person x such that: (a) in w 1 , x is respon...

I committed myself to read all the texts for our medieval comprehensive exam that I haven't already read so I can be a minima...