Alexander Pruss's Blog

There is a way to connect the right and wrong with the good and bad: An action is right (respectively, wrong) if and only if it is noninst...

Here is a hypothesis: It is epistemically better for the human community if human beings do not all have the same (ur-) priors. This cou...

Panteleology holds that teleology is ubiquitous. Every substance aims at some end. The main objection to panteleology is the same as that ...

Consider the following thesis that both Kantians, utilitarians and New Natural Law thinkers will agree on: All facts about rightness and w...

When making my Guinness application record video , I wanted to include a time display in the video and Guinness also required a running coun...

People often talk of moral norms as overriding. The paradigm kind of case seems to be like this: You are N -forbidden to ϕ but morally re...

Suppose Alice and Bob are perfect utilitarians or perfect amoral egoists in any combination. They are about to play a game where they raise ...

Alice and Bob are both perfect Bayesian epistemic agents and subjectively perfect utilitarians (i.e., they always do what by their lights ma...

There are empirical indications that various skills and maybe even virtues are pretty domain specific. It seems that being good at reasoning...

One might think that reasons for action are exhaustively and exclusively divided into the moral and the prudential. Here is a problem with t...

I think it is sometimes said that it is anachronistic to attribute to the ancient Greeks the discovery that the square root of two is irrati...

[April, 2023 update: This record has been accepted by Guinness . I wonder how long it will last.] And now for something not very philosophi...

I’ve been wondering whether it is possible for a country to count as pacifist and yet wage a defensive war. I think the answer is positive, ...

Imagine a moderate pacifist who rejects lethal self-defense, but allows non-lethal self-defense when appropriate, say by use of tasers. Now...

A normative power is a power to change a normative condition. Raz says the change is not produced “causally” but “normatively”. Here is a ...