Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider this argument (inspired by a comment Dan Johnson made on this post): God does everything out of love. God creates Fra...

A notion that I find rather natural is the idea of explanation modulo a fact. This notion can do some of the work that contrastiv...

Consider Thomson's lamp: a lamp with a pushbutton switch that toggles it on and off. The lamp starts in the off position, and then ...

My apologies for more advertising. While I was happy to notice earlier in the week that the Kindle version of my One Body book was out, I ...

Consider: We cannot permissibly intend to produce a person for reasons that do not include the specific person's own good. We ca...

I will argue for the Axiom of Choice for sets of real numbers (ACR). ACR states that: Given a set U of non-empty sets of real n...

Finally my One Body book has a Kindle version !

It is very hard to deny that it is logically possible that every rabbit has at least one offspring and there are no loops (no rabbit is ...

Heavenly bliss lasts infinitely long. (Some theologians think of heaven as timeless, but that fits poorly with the doctrine of the resurrec...

It is good to participate in a popular devotion because the devotion is popular (of course, this is defeasible: theological unsoundness...

Imagine an infinite sequence of games such that you are nearly certain to win each one, but you're also certain to lose all b...

One of the most difficult problems for divine simplicity are how to square it with creation and divine knowledge of free actions. ...

What matters most are things like people, love, understanding, courage, friendship, beauty, etc. According to many contemporary meta...

I am now thinking the following principle is likely to be true: (NoInfDep) No event can irreducibly depend on infinitely many things. This...

Consider Thomson's toggle lamp—each time the button is pressed, the lamp toggles between on and off—but suppose it existed fro...