Alexander Pruss's Blog

We have four jobs in philosophy or closely adjacent areas at Baylor, with most of the deadlines coming in mid-October: Tenure-track open-are...

Sometimes one talks of humans as having a higher value than other animals, and hence it being appropriate to treat them better. While humans...

Over the last couple of days I have realized that the laws of physics are rather more complex than they seem. The lovely equations like G  =...

According to Hume, for one to be responsible for an action, the action must flow from one’s character. But the actions that we praise people...

On a "Humean" Best System Account (BSA) of laws of nature, the fundamental laws are the axioms of the system of laws that best com...

Say that a function P  :  F  → [0,1] where F is a σ -algebra of subsets of Ω is chanceable provided that it is metaphysically possible t...

Here are three plausible theses: You’re only culpable for a morally wrong choice determined by a relevantly abnormal mental state if you a...

Suppose there is a 75% chance that I have done a specific wrong thing yesterday. (Perhaps I have suffered from some memory loss.) What shoul...

A generous patron makes an offer to you. You are to pick out a positive integer n and you will get 2 n units of value. You have the abilit...

We have an intuitive line as to where the suffering in animal’s life is so great compared to the goods in it that when we are able to do so,...

Here’s a speculative theory of persons: A person is an individual of a sort that pursues the good as such . What’s interesting on this t...

Conglomerability says that if you have an event E and a partition { R i  :  i  ∈  I } of the probability space, then if P ( E ∣ R i ) ≥  λ...

Are there ways in which it would be better if axiology were different? Here’s a suggestion that comes to mind: It would be better if cowar...

For years I would find myself periodically annoyed by shoelaces. Several times a day, I would have to engage in finicky fine-motor activity ...

Philoponus says: When Democritus said that the atoms are in contact with each other, he did not mean contact, strictly speaking, which occ...