Alexander Pruss's Blog

I'm still working on trying to prove the results here with while satisfying as many axioms of conditionals as possible, and ideally...

H 2 O is nothing but water.

This following is an excerpt from chapter 2 of my One Body book. One sense of “unconditional” is negative: there are no conditions on accou...

I used to think that A-theorists cannot consistently believe in time travel. I think I was mistaken. As best as I can reconstruct my line ...

According to induction, the future is like the past and present. But the past and present contain real events. Hence, probably, so does th...

Consider three debates: solipsism vs. other minds; presentism vs. eternalism; actualism vs. extreme modal realism. Let say that, like ...

The Everett multiverse interpretation of Quantum Mechanics has two parts. First, there is the dynamics: the wavefunction never collap...

On the traditional understanding of Christ's Incarnation, Christ has two minds—a human mind and a divine mind—even though he is one ...

According to kenotic Christianity, when Christ became incarnate, he literally ceased to have divine omni-properties. But at the same t...

Could creatures be free in a world with deterministic laws? Yes, because God could work a miracle each time that it is time for ...

Consider the following toy example of a law of nature: All electrons are charged. On an eternalist theory of time, the following express...

Suppose that it is now the first moment of time. This is surely possible. While there might not in fact be a first moment of time, sure...

On the Copenhagen interpretation, observation collapses quantum states. If panpsychism is true, there are constant observations ev...

One version of McTaggart's argument for the unreality of time is: If time is real, there is change. If there is change, there is...

Consider a class C of possible universes where, at t 0 , exactly 100 independent random processes are activated, and nothing else ran...