Alexander Pruss's Blog

There are books of weird mathematical things (e.g., functions with strange properties) to draw on for the sake of generating counterexamples...

Christians are called to have faith in Jesus Christ. The Old Testament, however, is big on not putting our faith in anything other than God...

Here’s a curious thing. The ideal Bayesian reasons about all contingent cases just as she reasons about lottery cases. If the reasoning does...

I am going to give some cases that support this thesis. If you can know that you won’t win the lottery, then in typical Gettier cases you ...

One sometimes hears claims like: There are things that can be conveyed through X (poetry, novels, film, art, music, etc.) that cannot be ...

I am one of those philosophers who think that it is correct to say that I know I won’t win the lottery—assuming of course I won’t. Here is ...

Here’s a curious phenomenon. Suppose I have enough justification for p that if p is in fact true, then I know p , but suppose also that my...

A question has hit me today that I would really want to have a good answer to: What’s the point of consciousness? I can see the point of rea...

In Peter Watts’ superb novel Blindsight , vampires are animals that function intelligently but lack consciousness. The lack of a detour of i...

The following cute argument is valid. If physicalism is true, all reality is effable (because it can all be expressed in the language of com...

Suppose we had good empirical data that people who suffer serious physical pain are typically thereby led to significant on-balance gains in...

The Kindle edition of my Infinity, Causation and Paradox book is now out. Alas, the price is excessive (a few dollars cheaper than the hard...

While listening to a really interesting talk on beauty in Aquinas,I was struck by the plausibility of the following idea (perhaps not Aquina...

You pray for me to get a benefit and God grants your prayer. The benefit is in an important sense a result of your prayer. But you didn’t ca...

Conciliationists say that when you meet an epistemic peer who disagrees with you, you should alter your credence towards theirs. While there...