Alexander Pruss's Blog

Quantum Mechanics has borne much fruit. Is this fruit poisonous? Probably not. But is the total weight of the fruit borne by Quantum Mech...

I have two basic metaphysical convictions that drive my metaphysics.  One is that there is no vagueness at the fundamental level.  So anythi...

Suppose I am an art graduate student.  After careful study, a certain well-known painting of uncertain provenance looks very much to me like...

Indeed he is risen! Here is an interesting question.  Why is Easter the greatest liturgical celebration of the year for Christians rather ...

I posted this on prosblogion , but I rather like it so I am posting it here (reworded a little).  By "creature" I shall understand...

Consider this piece of evidence: E : There are apparently gratuitous evils. Does E favor naturalism ( N ) or theism ( T )? T...

There seems to be a problem for the conjunction of Special Relativity and perdurantism.  Maybe this is a standard problem that has a standa...

I've been thinking about the problem of temporary intrinsics and don't see much of a problem.  There are two kinds of ways of formul...

Here are two standard stories about how mathematics is useful for figuring out what's going on in the physical world. Abstract structu...

Standard Abundant Platonism (SAP) holds that to every predicate there corresponds a property, and items satisfy the predicate if and only ...

(Premise) I know that if I am human, I am mortal. (Premise) If I know something, it's true. So, it is true that if I am h...

Suppose you are insuring yourself against some event type E with an insurance company with claims ratio, say, 0.75. This means t...

Which of these two would you go for if you had to choose? Scenario 1:  You will experience severe pain, of constant intensity J , for an h...

Imagine aliens who could telepathically induce three kinds of mental states in others, at a medium distance range: (a) states of the form it...

(Premise) God is hidden. (Premise) If x is hidden, then x exists. Therefore, God exists. This argument is logically valid , ...