Alexander Pruss's Blog

Assume: Necessarily, every exact duplicate of the Empire State Building has a cause. Necessarily, if an exact duplicate of the Empire...

The existence of a perfect being does not entail the existence of horrendous, morally intolerable, gratuitous evil. If it is ...

There ought to be a perfect being. What ought to be is possible. (Ought implies can.) If a perfect being is possible, there i...

Take seriously the Socratic idea that emotional awareness is a kind of perception of normative states of affairs: pain is a perception of ac...

On Friday I was feeling somewhat poorly and in the interests of public health (not that I minded!) I opted out of participation in the PhD g...

Here's a very quick slightly weekend-morning educational project to do with kids. To make it more educational, one can try to have kid...

Bear with a simple and standard bit of mathematics: the mathematics may give us lessons about God and evolution, frequentism, single-cas...

A colleague just asked me which dining halls were open. I pasted text from the Dining Services website into an email in response, without q...

Someone I know wanted to print a book from a Blogger blog. We tried the software from one book printing site, but it kept crashing. After ...

Suppose that in Elbonian word-order is unimportant and "xyzzy" can mean either "stands" or "the zebra" while ...

I noticed that my Principle of Sufficient Reason book was 52nd in Metaphysics on Amazon. That sounded kind of nice, though not amazing, un...

I will first argue that location is a multiply-realizable—i.e., functional—determinable. Then I will offer a sketch of what defines it...

I can use a fork as a backscratcher or my thumb and forefinger as the prongs of a slingshot . I claim that when I do so, there isn't a b...

Consider a standard Stern-Gerlach setup. An electron with mixed up/down spin is sent through a magnetic field. Then there are el...

Suppose that L is an unknown natural number (1,2,3,...) and as far as we know, all positive numbers are equally likely candidate for L...