Alexander Pruss's Blog

I accept the following two claims: Every free action is done for a reason. If an action is obligatory, then I have on balance r...

Consider these two rules of doxastic practice: Modus Ponens (MP): If you believe that p and you believe that if p , then q , then i...

It is normal to think that a disjunctive proposition that is true is grounded in each of its true disjuncts. This may be false. Let ...

Notre Dame University Press sent me an email asking if I have any ideas for a cover image for my One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethi...

My 6-year-old son and I built this copper pipe glockenspiel. Full build instructions with more photos are here.

Voting involves compromise on two levels. On the ground level, a vote involves coming to a compromise decision. But on the meta leve...

Becoming friendless is a harm, even if one does not know that one's last friend has just betrayed one. Likewise, one is harmed w...

Either God does or does not have moral obligations. If he has moral obligations, divine command theory seems to be false. Divine co...

This builds on, but also goes back over the ground of, my previous post. I've been playing with voting methods, or as I might pre...

Let me qualify what I'm going to say by saying that I know next to nothing about the voting literature. It's time for admissi...

In a posthumous paper, David Lewis shows that one can find a presentist paraphrase of sentences like "There have ever been, are or ever...

It is a classic maxim that: He who intends the end intends the means. Here is a problem. I take a pill to relieve a headache. Un...

In the popular imagination, the doctrines of literalism and inerrantism about Scripture go hand-in-hand. And there may well be a posi...

My nine-year-old daughter suggested that the fact that aliens aren't mentioned in the Bible gave us good reason to think there are...

One can fear that a certain medical procedure is wrong, one can hope that one's musical composition is beautiful, one can wis...