Alexander Pruss's Blog

I just realized something that I should have known earlier. Suppose I have a doppelganger who is just like me and goes wherever I go—by magi...

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It’s interesting that there are at least two significantly different kinds of partial causation. In both of the following cases it seems rea...

If ordinary events can happen without any cause at all, they can happen with a partial cause and no full cause. A partial cause is a part ...

The internal time of a substance is constituted by the causal order within its accidents. But God is a substance that has no accidents. So G...

A number of authors have claimed that it is possible to practice the Christian faith without assigning a high epistemic probability to centr...

Consider this standard closure of the physical argument for physicalism (Papineau gives one very close to this): Our conscious states have...

I just happened to come across an interview that Evan Rosa did with me about half a decade ago, when my One Body book came out. As far as ...

It is galling to be punished or even criticized unjustly. But it can also be galling to be rewarded or even praised unjustly. Over the past ...

You are a dentist and a teenage Hitler comes to you to have a bad tooth removed. You only have available an anaesthetic with this feature: W...

Consider this sequence of events: 2000: Alice marries Bob. 2010: Bob dies. 2020: Alice marries Carl. 2030: Alice and Carl invent time m...

Suppose that x is F if and only if x has a trope of F ness as a part of it. Here is a cute little problem. Suppose Jim is hurting and ha...

In yesterday’s post , I offered an argument by my son that multilocation is incompatible with the at-at theory of motion. Today, I want to o...

I was telling my teenage children about the at-at theory of motion: an object moves if and only if it is in one location at one time and in ...