Alexander Pruss's Blog

According to the privation theorist, when an evil occurs, some entity is lacking such that were that entity to exist, there would have been ...

Back in April , I suggested that there are two possible privation theories concerning evil: every evil is a privation for every evil, wh...

Say that a possible thought content has finite complexity provided that the thought content can be represented by a sentence of finite lengt...

Some ethicists think that the permissibility of an action typically does not depend on the intentions with which the action is done. (We obv...

Many, but not all, theorists think that racially based discrimination only counts as racism, and its perpetrators as racists, when the discr...

Bob is deciding whom to hire for a job where race is clearly irrelevant to job performance. There are two clear front-runners. Bob hires the...

According to Rawlsians, it is wrong to make decisions in the public arena based on controversial comprehensive doctrines. Here is a counter...

There is a lot of discussion about whether it is permissible to use reasons based on controversial comprehensive doctrines, such as religiou...

I think that our best physicalist view right now is a functionalism on which mental states are identified with types of computation in a har...

This argument is logically valid: Science only explains intersubjective phenomena. Consciousness is subjective and not intersubjective. ...

Suppose that Mary lives in a universe whose physics is radically different from ours. She loves mathematics and is amazingly good at it. She...

We don’t have anybody like Mary who knows all of physics and yet has not yet seen color, and as Dennett has pointed out, it is hard to imagi...

I have long identified as having an agent-causal theory of free will. But I have just realized that my Aristotelian take on agent causation ...

Consider our old friend Mary, who grew up in a black and white room, learned all of physics, and then saw a red tomato, allegedly learning a...

My son needed some 25 lb dumbbells for home workouts, since we took him out of his school's workouts due to COVID, but our local stores ...