Alexander Pruss's Blog

Human flourishing includes a number of central goods such as friendship with God, friendship with neighbor, understanding of the world, appr...

This will be a rather dogmatic post, summarizing a bunch of my thinking about intention and action. I think the fundamental concept i...

Once one has an adverbial ontology, like the one I used to help with the Incarnation, one no longer needs the parts of a substance i...

Consider this Wittgensteinian line of thought about the doctrine of the resurrection of Jesus (similar things can be said about ma...

Christ is God and Christ is a human. God is unchanging and humans are changing. God is omnipresent and humans are spatiotemporally d...

Beartooth Butte / USDA/Forest Service Imitation is a kind of reflection, and reflection seems to introduce a new symmetry into the world...

Yesterday, I overheard my six-year-old son Dominic saying in another room "... because the world is not in the world."  In later c...

I was removing my son's band-aid, and in so doing I was hurting him.  Half way through, I had a brilliant idea.  I went to the kitchen, ...

We've acquired a Kindle Fire. I've been trying it out. I like the screen. The size is slightly too large to be comfortable in a f...

Take regularity as the thesis that the rational agent assigns a probability of 0 only to impossible propositions and a probabilit...

Janet Smith has written a reply to my and Chris Tollefsen's critique of her defense of lying in some circumstances. There is a discus...

Consider this argument: Finding something funny always involves being surprised. An omniscient being is never surprised. So, an o...

Spinoza's main theory of intentionality is simple. What is the relationship between an idea and what it represents? Identity . ...

I ask you to give me an estimate of how long a table is. You say "950 mm". What did you do? You didn't assert that t...

Suppose the Principle of Sufficient Reason is false. Then consider an infinitude of phenomena such as: A brick did not causelessly come in...