Alexander Pruss's Blog

(Premise) A constitutive part of wondering why p is a desire to know why p . (Premise) A healthy wonder has only healthy desires as cons...

Here's one way to formulate the argument from pain against theism: "Granted, beings like us need an intense sensation normally trig...

(Premise) If a perfect being can't desire a state of affairs A , then A is not a good state of affairs. (Premise) A perfect being ca...

(Premise) The property, W A , of being such that for every world w it is possible for one to weakly actualize w is a powerfu...

I don't know much about vagueness, so I suspect that this is much more learnedly discussed in the literature. But I am in the midst of ...

This post is an oblique response to one of the lines of thought in a petition against Notre Dame University's lawsuit against the HHS co...

Let X 1 , X 2 ,... be a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables. Let H be a set of values, and let R n ( H ) be ...

This isn't meant to be a very good theory, but it's a start. The primitive notion I want to explicate is this notion of t...

The following argument is valid: No possible four-dimensional arrangement of mere matter is intrinsically such that it is worth sacrificin...

The ideal of a non-zero (point) probability assignment to all possibilities is incoherent for cardinality reasons . Moreover, as Alan Hajek...

I think there is nothing new here, but I want to collect together some facts that are interesting to me. Suppose m is a countably additive ...

It is a truism that the punishment should follow the crime. Thus, even if you know with enough certainty for court conviction that Smith wi...

Here are some photos over the first 45 minutes or so. They are in sequence, but not evenly spaced in time. This is from my 8" F/4.5 ...

Suppose Fred knows all necessary truths and is at least as smart as the author of this post. Fred wants to know whether a proposi...

Aquinas says that without grace we can avoid each individual mortal sin but not all mortal sin, at least not for a significant le...