Alexander Pruss's Blog

There is reason to think that a number of biblical texts—paradigmatically, the Pentateuch—were redacted from multiple sources that scholars ...

In an argument that David Lewis’s account of possible worlds leads to inductive skepticism, I used this premise: If knowing that x is F ...

I did something new and fun this fall: I wrote a computer science paper . It's an analysis of the conditions under which a device equipp...

There is an Aristotelian picture of knowledge on which all knowable things are divided exhaustively and exclusively into sciences by subject...

Assume actual result utilitarianism on which there are facts of the matter about what would transpire given any possible action of mine, and...

I claim that there is no general, straightforward and satisfactory way to define a total comparative probability with the standard axioms us...

Ted Sider famously argues for the universality of composition on the grounds that: If composition is not universal, then one can find a co...

I claim that there is no general, straightforward and satisfactory way to define a total comparative probability with the standard axioms us...

Some people think that simplicity of laws of nature is a guide to truth, and some think beauty of laws of nature is. One might ask: Is the b...

Suppose we have a full conditional probability P ( A ∣ B ) defined for all pairs of events (stipulating that P ( A ∣⌀) = 1 if we wish). I...

Here would be a really bad kind of moral dilemma: It is certain that unless you murder one innocent person now, you will freely become a m...

There are many contexts where a necessary condition of the permissibility of a course of action is a kind of proportionality between the goo...

Mark (10:11-12) and Luke (16:18) have rather simple and straightforward statements on divorce and remarriage: if you divorce and remarry, yo...

When I think about McTaggart’s famous argument against the A-theory of time—the theory that it is an objective fact about the universe what ...

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...