Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider a moral interpersonal version of Satan’s Apple : infinitely many people independently choose whether to give a yummy apple to a (di...

In yesterday’s post , I argued that there is something problematic about the idea of discounting small probabilities, given that in a large ...

A very intuitive solution to a variety of problems in infinite decision theory is that “for possibilities that have very small probabilities...

There are many paradoxes of infinite sequences of decisions where the sequence of individual decisions that maximize expected utility is un...

Suppose someone offers you, at no cost whatsoever, something of specified positive value. However small that value, it seems irrational to r...

Suppose Alice is blind to the intrinsic value of friendship and Bob can see the intrinsic value of friendship. Bob then told Alice that frie...

Suppose you pursue truth for its own sake. As we learn from Aristotle, it does not follow that you don’t pursue truth for the sake of someth...

A typical human being has much more intrinsic value than any 80 kg arrangement of atoms. If materialism is true, a typical human being is ...

On Thomistic accounts of transsubstantiation, the accidents of bread and wine continue to exist even when the substance no longer does (havi...

Here is an odd thesis: Whenever you gain a true belief, you gain a false belief. This follows from: Whenever you gain a belief, you ga...

The paper has just come out online in Synthese . Abstract: Scoring rules measure the accuracy or epistemic utility of a credence assignment...

My usual story about how to reconcile libertarianism with the Principle of Sufficient Reason is that when we choose, we choose on the basis ...

I like to illustrate the evidential force of simplicity by noting that for about two hundred years people justifiably believed that the forc...

Ought implies can. Most people can’t do Bayesian reasoning correctly. So Bayesian reasoning is not how they ought to reason. In particular, ...

Suppose a trolley is heading towards five people, and you can redirect it towards one. But the trolley needs to go up a hill before it can r...