Alexander Pruss's Blog

From the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum of 1599: It should be the set purpose of the teacher, both in his lectures as opportunity offers and on o...

The adequate is good enough. [If I wrote in a letter of recommendation that someone was an adequate candidate that would probab...

This argument for incompatibilism is inspired by an excellent paper by Patrick Todd that I just heard. I don't know if Patrick would e...

In the fall, I attended a really neat talk by Patrick Grim which reported on several computer simulation experiments by Grim. Su...

(Premise) If x has dignity, it is wrong to intentionally kill x primarily for the sake of a benefit to someone other than x ...

Many horrendous evils are horrendous largely because of horrendous indignity to the sufferer. Such "horrendous indignities...

Standard definitions of compatibilism say something like: Compatibilism holds if and only if there is a world where there is determinism...

I am in a position to know the denial of (1). Part I: Assume (1). Then I am in a position to know the negation of (1). But I ...

According to the best A-theories (i.e., those that accept an Aristotelian view of propositions as changing in truth value), there ...

A colleague mentioned how nice it would be to have a SMART Board in one of our classrooms for when he teaches philosophical writing, so he c...

Consider this metaethical naturalist view: Every moral property is identical with a natural property. Here is a simple argument...

I like to use the stone argument as a warm-up in a philosophy of religion class. But it's actually kind of tricky to use. He...

Question: Does grammar primarily govern the relations between word-types or those between word-tokens? Answer: Grammar does no...

The following argument is valid: (Premise) No life lived virtuously can have been wasted. (Premise) If God doesn't exist, ...

Here's a nice way to get an idea just how much processing intervenes between retinal images and conscious perception. Unless you...