Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider a version of consequentialism on which the right thing to do is the one that has the best consequences. Now suppose you...

Suppose that objectively, hell lasts forever. But while the first objective year of hell is experienced subjectively as a year l...

We're thinking of replacing my wife's netbook with a Chromebook, but printing is an issue. Our laser printer is over a decade old a...

If p partly grounds q and p is explanatorily irrelevant to r , then q does not strictly explain r . Something's being ungetti...

Suppose a species of deer who are persons evolved. And suppose one of the deer discovered that meat tastes good. Would it be permissib...

Compare: Assuming you pass at least one of your classes this spring, we will hire you in May. We will hire you in May. To a l...

The hot thing in epistemology these days is "knowledge first" epistemology. What I think about epistemology and knowledge is b...

In its classical formulation, Pascal's Wager contends that we have something like the following payoff matrix: God exists No God Bel...

You might think that someone who has no hair is definitely bald. Not so. For only someone who has a normally hirsute head can be bald, and...

Sometimes it is rational to choose a zero probability of an infinite good over a certainty of a finite good. Suppose there are uncountabl...

If we live in an infinite universe, then when we look at total values and disvalues, total utilities, we will always run into infi...

Imagine a sequence of blindfolded electrically charged people, at positions 1,2,3,... on a line in some coordinate system. Let f be a ...

One of the fundamental concepts of bundle theory is a coinstantiation relation between properties. Interestingly, it may be possible to...

It is often said that if your credences are probabilistically inconsistent, e.g., because you assign probability 0.6 to p and 0.6 to ...

Here is a plausible principle: If p explains q 1 and p explains q 2 , then p explains the conjunction of q 1 and q 2 . Now...