Alexander Pruss's Blog

(Premise) If p is true, and I can't prevent p from holding, and p entails q , then I can't prevent q from holding. (cf. Finc...

This post is obviously overgeneralized, but I think it is still heuristically useful. The compatibilist has trouble with out of c...

Some people think that events are never causes, except in a derivative sense.  It is substances  that are causes (and when one or more subst...

Despite having a pretty good Pittsburgh education in the philosophy of science, I never before read Ernan McMullin's "A Case...

We were considering the following argument in my Metaphysics class: Scientific realism impedes the progress of fundamental physi...

The Old Testament has a picture of its central character, God, that is on its surface inconsistent, with apparently contradictory...

One of the puzzles in the scientific explanation literature is how it is that one can genuinely have explanation in the special sciences—che...

Here is a problem for non-theistic unificationist accounts of explanation. Suppose that in world w 1 , I arrange a large sequence of n...

According to unificationist accounts of scientific explanation, scientific explanations are bodies of propositions and/or schemata...

Here is a theory of truth for propositions: p is true if and only if God believes p . And here is one for sentences: s is t...

If x has a great plot, then it is probably not the case that either (a) x was produced by no authors or (b) x was produced by a lar...

Here is a thought. Suppose that I know that if I cause A, then either B or C will eventuate. Suppose that each of B and C furth...

The causation and explanation literature is big on contrastivity. But the responsibility literature is not big on contrastiveness. Ho...

I am inclined to think we are four-dimensional (or, more precisely, ( n +1)-dimensional, where n is whatever number of dimension...

A reader wanted to know if I knew of any secular arguments against multiple simultaneous sexual relationships. I don't have ...