Alexander Pruss's Blog

The title is provocative, but the thesis is less provocative (and in essence well-known: Hawthorne's work on the deeply contingent a pri...

It has been argued that if we are the product of unguided evolution, we would not expect our moral sense to get the moral facts right. I thi...

I was thinking about the method of cases in ethics, and it made me think of what we do when we apply the method as a reverse engineering of ...

I've been thinking a bit about one of the key issues of the recent Synod on the Family, whether Catholics who have divorced and attempte...

I have a strong theoretical commitment to: To feel pain is to perceive something as if it were bad. Veridical perception is non-instrumental...

There is nothing essential new here, but it is a particularly vivid way to put an observation by Paul Bartha. You are going to receive a seq...

Intuitively, imposing a game of Russian roulette on an innocent victim is constitutive of twice as much moral depravity when there are two b...

Works of art are designed to be observed through a particular perceptual apparatus deployed in a particular way. A music CD may be shiny and...

A standard picture of final causation is this. A has a teleological directedness to engaging in activity F for the sake of producing B . T...

This is a followup on the preceding post . 1. Whenever the rational credence of p is 0.5 on some evidence base E , at least 50% of human ag...

Normally, we take a given measurement is a sample of a bell-curve distribution centered on the true value. But we have to be careful. Suppos...

You weigh a bag of marbles on a scale that you have no information about the accuracy of, and the scale says that the bag weighs 342 grams. ...

I intuitively find the following picture very plausible. On the one hand, there are mathematical claims, like the Banach-Tarski Theorem or E...

The moral intuitions of people who are a constituent part of a horrendously evil whole shouldn't be trusted absent significant evidence ...

I wonder if virtue epistemology isn't particularly well-poised to solve the problem of prior probabilities. To a first approximation, yo...