Alexander Pruss's Blog

Let's say you and I believe that there is life outside the solar system. But you're overconfident. So I tell you that t...

Start with this thesis: A random belief of a random person is at least as likely true as not. To deny (1) would be overly pessimistic, ...

From time to time, one reads the sentiment that if E causes F , then that E occurs does not entail that F occurs. Here is a counterexam...

The book manuscript is all finished, submitted, and is about to move into production at Continuum.  Some of the material in the book was wri...

Certain happenings in the world are transmitters of responsibility. For instance, if at t 1 Helga sets a bomb to go off at t 2 , ...

Say that p "nomically entails" q if and only if the conjunction of p with the laws L of nature entails q . Say that...

For the past couple of days I have been thinking hard about a bunch of puzzling but common kinds of mental states: I think it...

The human striving for beauty is really quite amazing. I was looking at a household hints book that my wife got, no doubt in part...

Before today, I would have said that the following objection to Aristotle and Aquinas' view that our actions should always hav...

Let NORID be the thesis that there is no instrumental desire (NID) or instrumental desire reduces (RID) to non-instrumental desir...

(Premise) Frankfurt's example shows that if compatibilism is true, then the Principle of Alternate Possibilities is false. (Premise...

(Premise) If one has done a wrong, one ought to ask someone for forgiveness of it. (Premise) If God does not exist, there are s...

Murder is wrong because it harms the victim in a particularly serious way. But what sort of harm does it impose on the victim? Some will ...

Some think that the life of a human being who has permanently and irreversibly lost consciousness has no value. Here are three a...

After reading up on the truth literature last fall, I've discovered some embarrassing problems in my past writing, which I've also ...