Alexander Pruss's Blog

This morning, I set out to walk to the Philosophy Department. If asked my intention, I might have said that it was to reach the Department. ...

The probability of a proposition p equals the probability that p is true. I have argued that this principle refutes open future views. It...

Parents have the authority to command their children and parents have a special duty to care for children. Officers have special duties of c...

I've been thinking about an argument with this logical form: If suicide is permissible, then slavery is permissible. Slavery is not perm...

Joe thinks chess is an evil game and creates a killer robot tasked with killing the greatest chess player on earth, whoever it might be. Th...

Suppose I toss infinitely many fair coins. By the Law of Large Numbers (and assuming an appropriate version of the Axiom of Choice), with pr...

I should warn readers that all my posts on quantum stuff are very, very sketchy. I'm very much learning the material. In my exploration ...

Suppose at t 1 there are countably infinitely many people with red hats and countably infinitely many people with black hats. You’re one of...

I am exploring what seem to me to be under-explored parts of the logical space of interpretations of Quantum Mechanics. I may be wasting my ...

The branching many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics famously faces the problem of why it is appropriate to interpret the weights i...

It's occurred to me that on most non-Bohmian interpretations of quantum mechanics, we end up being in a superposition of the kind of uni...

Consider Jeffrey Barrett's traveling minds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (see also here ). On this interpretation, minds traverse...

I just noticed that my recent SCP talk arguing that marriage is a natural kind has been posted . Slides (which I think don't show up on ...

I've got a big DIY urge. My motivations usually include being too cheap to buy something (typically because I'm saving up for someth...

For a long time I wanted to take one of those high speed water splash pictures that I've seen other people take. I played around with co...