Alexander Pruss's Blog

This is really just a note to self for future reference. I had uninstalled Microsoft Store very completely on my Win10 laptop, but then want...

As an experiment, I cut the ear loops of one of my KN95 masks, and then made them join very snugly behind the head with rubber bands. I fo...

When a state legislates, it often carves out very specific exceptions to the legislation. Sometimes, of course, one is worried that the exce...

I have found (using a small single blind test ) that disposable masks have better audio quality for teaching: cloth muffles the voice, esp...

One of the earliest and most important discoveries in Western philosophy was: Doing the right thing is sometimes bad for you (in non-moral...

Consider three worlds where a sofa rises and in each of which Alice and Bob have the same lifting powers, and nothing beyond Alice and Bob i...

In many interesting cases, there is no way to define a regular hyperreal-valued probability that is invariant under symmetries, where “regul...

Often, a probabilistic situation is invariant under some set of transformations, in the sense that the complete probabilistic facts about th...

A lot of my work in philosophy of probability theory has been devoted to showing that one cannot use technical means to get rid of certain p...

Consider the concept of a complete probabilistic characterization (CPC) of an experiment. It’s a bit of a fuzzy concept, but we can get som...

I think the following is a consequence of a hyperreal variant of the Horn-Tarski extension theorem for measures on boolean algebras: Clai...

I’ve been trying to avoid holding there are real moral dilemmas—ones where one is genuinely morally required to do something and to abstain ...

Alice is a sniper tasked with stopping Bob the terrorist who is about to set up a bomb that will kill many. Let’s take it for granted that s...

If physicalism is true, then vice is an instance of medium-to-long-term poor bodily function. Instances of medium-to-long-term poor bodily...

The Analytic Collective and SCP are having an inaugural online session on August 21 at 4-5:30 pm Eastern Time to discuss Scott Hill's f...