Alexander Pruss's Blog

According to relationalism, space is constituted by the network of spatial relations, such as metric distance relations (e.g., being seven m...

I made a handy little python script for tabulating group votes with more than two candidates using either Black’s Procedure or Nanson’s Met...

Fix a sample space Ω and an algebra F events on Ω . A gamble is an F -measurable real-valued function on Ω . A credence function is a fu...

It is very plausible that God can forgive wrongs we do to him. But a very difficult question which is rarely discussed by philosophers of re...

Suppose neither Alice nor Bob has the power to budge the sofa, but together they can lift it. Causal powers belong to substances, and Alice ...

In my previous post I argued that if Bob writes and posts a letter of recommendation for himself purporting to be from Alice, and saying al...

Suppose Bob faked a letter of recommendation from his dissertation director Alice, in which letter lots of stuff was said which Bob knew to ...

When someone’s walking speed is two miles per hour, there are not two things, “one mile per hour walkings”, that are present. When we say t...

Suppose that Arthur is about to give a lecture on trope theory but the lecture is canceled due to Platonist protests. It is intuitive to sa...

The ordinary notion of a hole is kind of dubious. Consider the hole in the thin wavy sheet of rubber on the right. What is the shape of tha...

Suppose substantivalism about space is correct. Imagine now that the following happens to a slice of swiss cheese: the space where the holes...

It is plausible that the reasons for which one chooses an action help determine the kind of action it is. Plausibly, an action is a murder i...

It is said that: he who intends the end intends the means. But the person who doesn’t know how a computer keyboard works does intend to ...

Suppose a long snake is stretched out and its front half is annihilated instantaneously. This presumably instantly destroys the snake's ...

The Principle of Double Effect controversially teaches that when an effect is bad, it is typically worse to intend it than to merely foresee...