Alexander Pruss's Blog

If a person acts in a way that would be right if their relevant non-moral beliefs were correct, they are not subject to moral criticism for...

Much of the contemporary analytic discussion of Pascal’s Wager has focused on technical questions about how to express Pascal’s Wager formal...

To resolve the many gods and evil god objections to Pascal’s Wager, we need a way of comparing different infinite positive and negative outc...

If someone asks me to ϕ , typically that informs me that they want me to ϕ . But the normative effect of the request cannot be reduced to th...

One of the ways we flourish is by achievement : by successfully fulfilling a plan of action and getting the intended end. But it seems that ...

Here’s an analogy I’ve been thinking about. God’s value is related to other infinities like (except with a reversal of order) zero is relate...

Let’s do some rough and ready thinking about the spectrum of possible values of objects on a classical theistic view. God has his value es...

In my previous post , I glibly talked of the infinite value of persons. I forgot that such talk was discredited by this argument . Instead, ...

All persons have infinite value. Nothing in the universe other than persons has infinite value. There was a first person in the universe....

A thing with no meaning cannot cause a thing with meaning. There was a first meaningful thing (e.g., a thought) in the physical universe. ...

Only intelligent beings and things produced by them have objective meaning. Something that is objectively meaningless is not objectively b...

Long ago, in correspondence with Plantinga and me, Peter van Inwagen suggested that the only way to model a countably infinite fair lottery ...

I just came across this in Shturman and Tiktin’s delightful anthology of Soviet era jokes. (I don't know if it exists in translation.) ...

It is widely taken in the Thomistic tradition that: Different people in heaven have the beatific vision to different degrees, correspondin...

Today, I wanted to see how well the following greedy strategy works on Wordle. Given a set H of words, a word w partitions H into equival...