Alexander Pruss's Blog

Hume argues against miracles by means of his balancing principle: (HBP) You should believe p on the basis of testimony only if p is at l...

Classical theism holds that God is timeless and knows all objective truths. According to A-theories of time, objective truths change (e.g., ...

Imagine it’s the last moment of time. What’s next for you? Nothing! It’s a terrifying time, but it’s one that’s hard to describe well. Phras...

On the question of what has a substantial form, I have tended to think something similar to van Inwagen’s answer to the question of what w...

The dynamics of reality over time vary between theories of time. On growing block, at each moment a new present slice is added to reality. O...

Aristotle thinks that time is infinitely subdivisible but only finitely subdivided. Thus, there will be moments t 1  <  t 2 such that th...

Suppose that the universe began with the Big Bang, and the Big Bang had no cause, so the universe came into existence ex nihilo . It then we...

Suppose that the full saturated truthbearers are tensed propositions (which I think is essentially what the A-theory of time comes to). Now ...

Handheld, through welder's glass Hanheld, through eclipse glasses, with a whiff of sunspots (I'll have to get proper solar film for ...

Here are three interesting intuitions (or maybe evan data points) worth chewing on: Large language models are smarter than squirrels. Lar...

Some philosophers say that space is fundamentally constituted by points. Others that it is fundamentally constituted by regions, and points ...

In the classic Thomson’s Lamp paradox, the lamp has a switch such that each time you press it, it toggles between on and off. The lamp start...

Suppose time is discrete. The usual story then is that we are always at some point of time. But what if, instead, we are always between ti...

“This is the love of God: that we keep his commandments” (1 John 5:3) But what is the connection between love and commands? Indeed, why w...

Suppose a strong epistemic preference for simpler theories of the world. One might then think that a simulation hypothesis is automatically ...