Alexander Pruss's Blog

Personhood is teleologically relational in the sense that a person is the kind of being that necessarily can only be fulfilled in relations...

Consider this thesis, which both Augustine and Aquinas would accept: Value supervenes on being (VSB): How valuable reality is is determine...

In typical lab research ethics, the following types of ethical considerations count against an experiment: risks of harm to the world outs...

On the Aristotelian account of abstraction, we abstract the forms of things via perception. But here is a problem. First of all, we sometime...

Suppose we have an infinite regress of chickens and eggs, with no first item, and suppose that if there is any last item, it’s not a chicken...

Here are two Aristotelian theses: Complete human flourishing requires the exercise of all the human virtues. Courage is a human virtue. ...

I am toying with the thesis that each person’s self-consciousness is qualitatively different. Perhaps all persons have uniquely individuatin...

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, ...