Alexander Pruss's Blog

In physics, we hope for the following unification: there is a small set of simple laws, and all the rest of physics derives logically from t...

Here’s an accuracy-theoretic argument for probabilism (the thesis that only probabilities are rationally admissible credences) on finite spa...

I used to take it for granted that it’s reasonable to make epistemic utilities be continuous functions of credences. But this is not so clea...

Alexander Pruss, “Three mysteries of the concrete: Causation, mind and normativity”, Christian Philosophy 2022, online, Cracow, Poland, Sept...

In my previous post , I discuss cases where someone is doing an evil for the sake of preventing significantly worse goods—say, murdering a p...

Suppose you are visiting a hospital and you see Bob, a nurse, sneaking into Alice’s hospital room. Unnoticed, you look at what is going on, ...

Some people think that a constituent (whole or partial) of consent is some sort of inner mental act of agreement with the thing one consents...

Some people think that an outcome of an action foreseen with practical certainty is also intended. If so, then pretty much every case where ...

On Mill-Ramsey-Lewis accounts of laws of nature, the laws are the propositions that best balance informativeness and brevity (in a language ...

I’ve just realized that there is something rather attractive about panpsychism from a Christian point of view. All things God has created ar...

There is something attractive about an ontology where all the properties are powers, but it seems objectionable. First, a power is partly d...

Suppose that determinism is true and Alice is about to roll a twenty-sided die to determine which of twenty innocent prisoners to murder. Th...

I’m getting convinced that pain, or even physical pain, is a category that does not cut nature at the joints. Consider that the taste of mou...

Suppse that I had a device that would cause a mild but sensible vibration in the nasal membranes of the person I pointed it at. Absent conse...

I’ve been thinking a bit about the afterlife for non-human animals. The first thought is that there is a relevant difference between human a...