Alexander Pruss's Blog

Kant writes: only three [forms of sovereignty] are possible: namely, either only one , or some in association, or all those together who...

Kant says that a virtuous persons has the happiness of others as an end. Note that this is not an end in the sense of a goal which we try t...

In the case of non-epistemic goods, it’s an obvious feature of life that someone there is a choice to be made by an individual between their...

It’s easy to generate probabilistic paradoxes in a universe (or multiverse) with infinitely many people (e.g., if infinitely many people rol...

In order to give valid consent, the subjects in an experiment need to be informed about all the harms that the experimenter plans to impose...

Assume that in fact all ravens are black. Suppose you are sequentiallly observing ravens, and noting each one to be black. After observing n...

Pascal’s Wager is an argument that it is prudentially rational to engage in theistic belief promotion practices (TBPP), namely practices apt...

There are different types of knowledge: mathematical, geological, biological, a priori , a posteriori , de se , interpersonal, hard-earned, ...

A number of philosophers have posited a special “second-person knowledge”, expressible by phrases like “Bob and Alice know each other”. It i...

Alice has lived forever in a universe with an infinite road that has a beginning and no end, and is marked every mile. Every day of her life...

My 13-year-old daughter came up with a rather nice argument against taking knowledge to be nothing but justified true belief. Jesus tells u...

For a while this spring I’ve been thinking about ways of avoiding quaternity views of God. The problem is that, first, Father ≠ Son, Son ...

Aquinas’s account of location for material substance is as follows. Ordinary material substances have a special accident—one more fundamenta...

Humans are ridiculous. Humans are only ridiculous if there is a being much greater than humans. So, there is a being much greater than hu...

The Company axiom of mereology holds that an object cannot have only one proper part. This is a weaker version of the (Weak) Supplementation...