Alexander Pruss's Blog

On the one hand, Jesus tells us that it is more blessed to give than to receive. On the other hand, Socrates tells us in the Gorgias : And w...

Heroism that involves facing death would not be so heroic if the hero felt completely certain of a good afterlife. But given the close rati...

Functionalism about spatial properties says that what makes spatial properties be spatial is the kind of role they play in interaction with ...

Let's suppose that personal identity over time is secured by continuation of psychological states. Now imagine Jim and Sally are robots ...

This result is probably known, and probably not optimal. A conditional probability function P is conglomerable provided that for any partit...

I am sick. Here's a heartening argument: Next week I have some teaching and I can't teach while sick. I ought to do the teaching. Ou...

Given an unconditional probability function P , one can always (at least given the Axiom of Choice) extend to a full conditional probability...

Whenever I act, one of following is true: My action is uncaused. My action is caused, but not by a reason. (I will take this mean: by a re...

I was trying to generate a Mandelbrot set fractal in Minecraft using a python script . But the palette available is very limited, which led ...

Consider William James' murderous mountaineer. His buddy is hanging on a rope that our antihero is holding, and our antihero decides to ...

Perhaps the deepest question about human beings is about the source of our dignity. What feature of us is it that grounds our dignity, gives...

I've been sensitized to the fact that there are many children who have no access to a PC but do have access to a smartphone. So in the i...

It is common, since Mary Anne Warren's defense of abortion, to define personhood in terms of appropriate developed intellectual capaciti...

To care about something that isn't a person to the degree that one cares about persons is wrong. It is a distortion of love to care in t...

I enter a room with four walls, three of them red, and the fourth white, except for a small red patch, about 1 cm 2 in size. I also find a ...