Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here's a bug I haven't had before: my code broke because something else was improved . I had some Arduino code that needed to displ...

A crucial part of Diotima’s ladder is the progress from sensible beauty to the non-sensible beauty of mind, law and mathematics. From time t...

In a paper on Double Effect , I offer this kind of an example. Jim has sneaked into a zoo on a mission to kill the first mammal he sees at t...

Some people want to be able to compare the sizes of sets in a way that respects the principle: If A is a proper subset of B , then A  ≤  ...

Sometimes theists are accused of anthropomorphism in their concept of God. But it is important to note that theists hold that God is the ent...

I think one of the most powerful objections to divine command theory is MacIntyre’s question as to which divine attributes make it be the ca...

A fellow philosopher just sent me this very interesting quote from an article in a reputable medical journal: [I]f it was conclusively sho...

Suppose that a contraceptive has the following properties: Fewer than 1% of users have a pregnancy annually. At least 5% of users annuall...

There are many set-theoretic claims that are undecidable from the basic axioms of set theory. Plausibly, the truths of set theory hold of ne...

There is something very unappealing about unexplained, i.e., brute, metaphysical necessities that are “arbitrary”. For instance, suppose tha...

One way to look at the difference between the deaths of humans and brute animals is to say that the death of a human typically deprives the ...

For any norm N k that we institute, there is a prior norm N k  − 1 that specifies that when the acts of institution of N k are performed,...

I think many of us have the intuition that it is permissible, indeed often morally required, for a decent country to defend itself against i...

Some properties that a thing has partially or wholly explain other properties the thing has or doesn’t have. For instance, my having a body ...

With various ongoing projects, I've acquired a lot of small electronic components in little baggies. To store them, I designed a set of ...