Alexander Pruss's Blog

It seems to be widely accepted in the philosophy of religion community that supposing God's merely compensating a person for e...

One measure of the simplicity of a proposition is the length of the shortest sentence expressing the proposition. Unfortunately, this me...

Simplicity is best understood linguistically (e.g., brevity of expression in the right kind of language). Simplicity is a succ...

I've never found the moral argument for morality—except in its epistemic variety—particularly compelling. But now I find myself pull...

Aristotelians think that tensed sentences like "It is sunny" expressed "tensed propositions" capable of chang...

Invoking free will has always been a major part of theodicy. If God has good reason to give us the possibility to act badly, that ...

A grad student was thinking that Platonism isn't dominant in philosophy, so I looked at the PhilPapers survey and indeed a plurality of...

According to presentism, events come out of nothing (the future), have a flash of reality as they are briefly present, and then pass bac...

Suppose that God made physical stuff (say, particles) be arranged just like in a butterfly, but he did not give (either directly or by ...

1. A moral saint can respond in a saintly way to everything the wicked can do to her. 2. If there is no afterlife, then a moral saint canno...

If we have abundant properties in our ontology, do we need to posit a second kind of entities, the sets? Properties are kind of like set...

Without having done any scientific survey, I get the impression that philosophical pro-choicers tend to agree with philosophical pro-li...

A number of my posts are exercises in philosophical imagination rather than serious philosophical theories. These exercises can ha...

I'm going to start by offering a simple way—likely not original, but even if so, not very widely discussed—of turning an indetermin...

I used to worry for Aristotelian reasons about the particles making up my body. The worry went something like this: Elementary par...