Alexander Pruss's Blog

Sometimes one wants someone (even oneself) to have a PDF that becomes unviewable past a certain date, but the expiry isn't meant to be s...

Philosophers sometimes use thought experiments concerning the asymmetry of attitudes towards future and past events as arguments for a metap...

According to Augustine’s privation theory of evil, evil has no positive reality, but is always a lack of something. It seems that theists ar...

I’ve been thinking of this way of putting one of Kant’s “20 thalers” objection to Anselm’s ontological argument: 1, When we say “ x is gre...

You cannot forgive someone who hasn’t wronged you, and it should follow that likewise you cannot take vengeance on someone who hasn’t wronge...

Students sometimes find trivial universalizations, like "All unicorns have three horns", confusing. I just overheard my teenage da...

I've been invited to give the Wilde Lectures in Natural and Comparative Religion at Oxford. It will be in the spring of 2018 or 2019, bu...

My son has been reading Verne’s In Search of the Castaways ( Captain Grant’s Children , Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant ) on his Kindle, one...

A fundamental commitment of Aristotelianism seems to be that all reality supervenes on substances and accidents. If according to worlds w 1 ...

Every so often I worry that my fear of death (which, I have to confess, is more a fear of non-existence than a fear of hell) shows that I la...

According to presentism, non-present events do not exist. Now consider a particular season S of fencing consisting of a dozen fencing meets...

The standard perdurantist theory of consciousness is that the whole four-dimensional individual is derivatively conscious in virtue of the s...

Every part of God is perfect. Only God is perfect. So, every part of God is God. So, God has no proper parts (parts that aren’t himself)...

Suppose vague existence and vague identity are impossible. Consider cases where a seemingly insignificant difference makes a difference as t...

There is a tradition of seeing lying as specifically a sin against God. St Augustine thought that this followed from the identification of G...