Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose: There are tensed facts. If F is a contingent fact solely about physical reality that does not depend on creaturely free choice,...

I’m thinking about my recent argument against divine temporalism, the idea that God has no timeless existence but is instead in time, and t...

Imagine this unfortunate sequence of events will certainly befall you in a classical universe: You will be made to fall asleep. Upon waki...

I stipulate that: According to pure divine temporalism , God is a being in time without a timeless existence all of whose decisions are ma...

Here's a theory: a material thing is something that has or is a causal power that is not a mental causal power. Variant: that is not a r...

Some cosmological theories lead to the worrisome conclusion that most people with present brain states like ours are Boltzmann brains—random...

One can think of Everettian multiverse quantum mechanics as beginning by proposing two theses: The global wavefunction evolves according t...

I’ve been thinking about how well Descartes’ cogito argument works given the following plausisble thesis: Every perception, including intr...

I think God is timeless. For a long time I’ve been vaguely worried by the thought that on a B-theory of time, a timeless being is like a bei...

An amoeba is alive but an accurate simulation of an amoeba wouldn’t be alive. If (1), then an accurate simulation of a human wouldn’t be a...

Here’s yet another way to formulate my omniscience argument against a theistic multiverse, a theory on which God creates infinitely concrete...

Suppose that today at noon, Felix the cat enters a time machine and travels back to the time of the dinosaurs, where he spends the rest of h...

Eventually, the modern tradition becomes very suspicious the idea that there can be a similarity between the contents of the mind and charac...

One thinks of virtue ethics as a unified family of ethical systems. But it is interesting to note just how different virtue ethical systems ...

According to Spinoza, I am a mode and God is the only substance. But I am not directly a mode of God. I am a mode of a mode of a mode of … a...