Alexander Pruss's Blog

Aquinas distinguishes between choices and no-brainers, though not in those terms. In a choice between options A and B , there is...

Here is my epub version of Aquinas's Summa Theologica . [Edit: Fixed bad link.]

[ Edit:  I edited the Moon+ review to take into account the latest version as of January 5, 2012. -ARP] Every couple of weeks, my Palm TX ...

Suppose Merlin believes there is a parallel universe containing infinitely many people and that by scratching both ears simultane...

Suppose I promise x  that I will do whatever I promise y , and I promised y  that I will do whatever I promise x .  I then promise x  to bri...

I acquired an Android device, but haven't been too happy with any of the free PDF viewers I tried for ebook reading. E.g., some don...

This is another attempt at defending the main point of this post, that the randomness objection is also problematic for compatibi...

Suppose I act in a way that contributes to Bob's having a vicious character that deterministically produces wrong actions unde...

Consider x 's faithful Christian prayer that y would always avoid some sin. (Perhaps x = y , and perhaps they are distinct.)...

In court, witnesses swear to tell the truth. That's interesting. Let's consider the consequences of taking this literally...

I've been thinking about comparing degrees of reponsibility, and then it hit me that there are two kinds of degrees of respons...

There are times when we have two incompatible desires and we act on the one that felt weaker to us. In those cases, there is a te...

The randomness argument insists that if our actions are not determined by our character, then they are a matter of chance and hence no...

Suppose that Sam is dying of cancer and Sally prays for him. God now has two reasons to cure Sam's cancer: (1) cancer is bad;...

Scripturally, marriage—and hence presumably also marital and sexual love—stops at death. There is good philosophical reason for this. Sexu...