Alexander Pruss's Blog

I take intentions to specify the success conditions for an action. An action is successful precisely to the extent that it satisfies the int...

If the A-theory of time is true, then it is (metaphysically) possible that the year 2010 have the objective property P of presentness and i...

It is widely thought that: If you act wrongly in an irrational state, but you are responsible for being in the irrational state, then the ...

Internalism about non-derivative responsibility holds that whether one is non-derivatively responsible for a decision depends only on facts ...

Assume open futurism, so that, necessarily, undetermined future tensed “will” statements are either all false or all lack truth value. Then ...

If presentism and most, if not all, other versions of the A -theory are true, then propositions change in truth value. For instance, on pres...

All reality is such that it can be known perfectly from the point of view of God. The point of view of God is eternal and timeless. Thus,...

Suppose a dog lives forever. Assuming the dog stays roughly dog-sized, there is only a finite number of possible configurations of the dog’s...

It is a staple of sermons on love that we are required to love our neighbor, not like them. I think this is true. But it seems to me that ...

Here is an interesting metaphysical thesis about mathematics: Σ 1 0 alethic Platonism. According to Σ 1 0 alethic Platonism, every sentenc...

Famously, Goedel’s incompleteness theorems refuted (naive) logicism, the view that mathematical truth is just provability. But one doesn’t ...

We are said to have various obligations, especially of benevolence, to our friends precisely because they are our friends. Yet this seems mi...

Following up on my posts ( this and this ) regarding puzzles generated by moral uncertainty, here is another curious case. Dr. Alice Kowal...

You are the captain of a small damaged spaceship two light years from Earth, with a crew of ten. Your hyperdrive is failing. You can activat...

For simplicity, I’ll stick to deterministic systems in this post. Functionalists think that if A is a conscious system, and B is functiona...