Alexander Pruss's Blog

Molinists have the ability to give a distinctive pre-established harmony account of how the exceptionless truth of deterministic laws of nat...

Yesterday I realized something that should have been obvious: there are two separate interaction problems for dualism. Metaphysics: How do...

Alice is the chair of a small Department, there being only one other faculty member, Bob. Alice asks IT to run anti-virus software on all th...

On moving spotlight theories, eternalism is true: past, present and future things all exist. But the present is metaphysically special: you ...

Consider three horses: Alexander's Bucephalus, Gandalf's Shadowfax and Dawn. Here, I am using "Dawn" as the name of a hors...

If presentism is true, then vagueness about the exact moment of cessation of existence implies vagueness about existence: for if it is vague...

It is known that perdurantists, who hold that objects persisting in time are made of infinitely thin temporal slices, have to deny that fund...

According to standard perdurantism, we are four-dimensional beings made out of three-dimensional slices, and properties such as mental ones ...

Imagine that beings like us come into existence at the very first moment of time and they are the only contingent beings. To aid imagination...

It is often said that the four-dimensionalist doesn’t have a good theory of movement beyond the at-at theory which holds that to move is t...

A foundational commitment of Aristotelian philosophy is that all facts are grounded in what substances and features intrinsic to substances,...

Suppose Alice has an inconsistent probabilistic assignment P A . Then, famously, there is a series of bets on single propositions (call thes...

Like me, you might have naively speculated that the more truth you know, the better you’ll do in gambling scenarios. But this is mistaken, a...

Here is something that worries me. In a democratic system, voters need to decide questions where not only is the first-order evidence regard...

Given a Natural Law ethic, we could imagine a type of creature whose nature is such that even under normal circumstances, it is subject to i...