Alexander Pruss's Blog

In strange physical circumstances, we would not be surprised by strange and unexpected behavior of a system governed by physical laws. Unde...

Suppose that starting this year (2019), I and all people who are important to me will do the following: We will live for 20 years on a delig...

Many Christians deny traditional Christian doctrines regarding sexual ethics while accepting traditional Christian Trinitarian doctrine. Thi...

Suppose two quantum systems, A and B , are perfectly entangled in such a way that for any measurement of one system, the other system must ...

On a Humean metaphysics, energy conservation implies a vast conspiracy in the arrangement of things throughout spacetime, somewhat like this...

Suppose I promise my class to grade all the weekly homework within three days. In week four, I fail and am late with grading. If the content...

Imagine two objects, M and H , where M has the intrinsic causal power of emitting some sort of a pulse once per minute and H has the intr...

Suppose at at noon, Alice is relaxed in an armchair listening to music, but at any given time she is capable of choosing to get up, walk ove...

Consider an item x with a half-life of one hour. Then over the period of an hour, it has a 50% chance of decaying, over the period of a sec...

On occasion, I’ve heard undergraduates suggest that naturalism faces a problem with emotions . They feel that a mere computational system wo...

The past is unchangeable. But if the A-theory is true, then past events constantly objectively get older and older. That seems to be a kind ...

Alice promises Bob to impose on him some penalty should Bob do a certain wrong. Bob does the wrong, and points out to Alice that imposing th...

There is no strict duty to reward a person who has done a supererogatory thing. Otherwise, engaging in generosity would be a way of imposing...

Among those who think that God is in time, there are two views: God has existed for an infinite amount of time God came into time a finit...

Truth supervenes on being is the thesis that if two worlds have the same entities, they are otherwise the same. I just realized something th...