Alexander Pruss's Blog

Start with two Thomson's Lamps. They each have toggle switches and are on at 10 a.m. The switches are toggled at 10:30, 10:45, 10:52.5 a...

For quite some time, my older daughter has wanted me to make her Great Wolf Lodge Magiquest wand do something at home. So I made a simple I...

Some years back I learned that when epistemologists talk about the "problem of scepticism", they are thinking about theses that de...

Let's say I have some algorithm that generates the sequence of numbers, and I run ten iterations on the computer and get 1 1.5 1.4166...

Being largely tone-deaf, I don't appreciate music much at all. In fact, the older I get, the more music tends to annoy me, particularly ...

Last summer, I taught programming to gifted kids with Python and Minecraft. Here's my Instructable giving a curriculum for a course lik...

I made an Instructable giving the curriculum I used for a mini-course for gifted middle- and high-school kids teaching programming by makin...

My RaspberryJamMod , which enables the Minecraft PI API for Python programming , has been updated to work with Minecraft/Forge 1.10. Still a...

Some people think it is absurd to say, as Cantorian mathematics does, that there are no more real numbers from 0 to 100 than from 0 to 1. Bu...

Finitists say that it is impossible to actually have an infinite number of things. Now, either it is logically contradictory that there is a...

Suppose I played a lottery that involved my picking ten digits. The digits I picked are: 7509994361. At this point, my probability that I wo...

We are incapable of having a pain that lasts only a nanosecond (or a picosecond or, to be really on the safe side, a Planck time). Anything ...

My colleague Todd Buras has inspired this argument: A veridical experience of an event is caused by the event. Sometimes a human being is v...

Alice and Bob are Elbonians, a despised genetic minority. It seems that unless the level of mistreatment that members of this minority suffe...

Suppose that it's possible for us to create genuinely intelligent computers. If we achieved genuine sapience in a computer, we would hav...