Alexander Pruss's Blog

Van Inwagen’s account of composition is that the x s compose a whole if and only if their activity constitutes a life. Here is a possibl...

I updated an old Android Shogi (Japanese chess) app that uses the Bonanza engine to work better with newer devices (and I also simplified i...

Suppose you receive this trustworthy report: Dr. Smith ate a banana. You are now in a position to learn this additional fact: Someone ...

I have a calling. If I have a calling, someone with authority over me calls me to a particular form of life. No human being with authorit...

Here is a difficulty for the doctrine of the Trinity that I don’t remember coming across before: The Father and the Son have the numerical...

Alice is thinking about a question q in science or philosophy, and concludes that figuring out whether a certain mathematical proposition p...

Memory theories of personal identity don’t work for the Incarnation. For Christ’s human mind cannot remember what Christ’s divine mind thoug...

According to the doctrine of existential inertia, objects have a metaphysical tendency to continue existing absent interference. Existential...

Many contemporary ethicists believe that: Moral reasons are always other-regarding. Add this very plausible premise: No action that is...

I am now simultaneously aware of the motion of my fingers and of the text on the screen. Call this co-awareness. Co-awareness is not the sam...

If naturalism about our minds is true, then the correct account of intentionality is causal. On a causal account of intentionality, our po...

Suppose that the right account of state authority requires the consent of the governed. A standard view is that this consent is presumed in ...

Reid thinks that the Aristotelians make the same mistake as the Lockeans and Berkeleians: they all think that the phenomenal qualities or “i...

Here is something everybody should agree on: there are no unfelt pains. The obviousness and clarity of this strongly suggests: Pain is t...

Spinning a rigid object cannot affect its shape. If four-dimensionalism is true, spinning a rigid object can affect its shape. So, four-d...