Alexander Pruss's Blog

A standard scoring rule argument for probabilism—the doctrine that credence assignments should satisfy the axioms of probability—goes as fol...

Suppose that a process Q has a chance r of producing some non-instrumentally bad result B , and nothing else of relevance. That fact gives...

It is bad that tomorrow someone will be in intense pain. On eternalism, we can easily explain this: tomorrow’s pain is just as real as today...

For this post, suppose that an A-theory of time is true, so there is an absolute present. If we think of possible worlds as fully encoding h...

Mill thinks that: An action is unjust if society has a utility-based reason to punish that actions of that type. An action is wrong if th...

There are three big mysterious aspects of the concrete world around us: the causal the mental the normative. The three mysteries are i...

Suppose the future is open. Then it is not true that tomorrow Jones will freely mow the lawn. Moreover, it is necessarily not true that Jon...

According to wavefunction realism, we should think of the wavefunction of the universe—considered as a square-integrable function on R 3 n ...

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...