Alexander Pruss's Blog

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

While I’ve grown up as a scientific realist, and been trained as one as a philosophy graduate student, and I suppose I still identify as one...

1 Corinthians 14:33b-34a is one of the “hard texts” of the New Testament. The RSV translates it as: As in all the churches of the saints, ...

Alice has a paper due the day after Thanksgiving. She’s already gotten all the extensions she can, and she can’t get it done except by worki...

Spot has a mass of 10kg, while Felix has a mass of 8kg. The standard Platonic way to model the facts expressed by this is to say that Spot a...

Functionalism about location holds that any sufficiently natural relation, say between objects and points in a topological space, that has ...

After it took place, Christ's sacrifice had never ceased to be a part of reality. But Christ's sacrifice did not continu...

I hire Jack the mad brainwasher to capture a random Wacoite and brainwash the victim into burning up a local hardware store's stoc...

It seems to me it would have been less appropriate for God to ask Sarah to sacrifice a daughter than to ask Abraham to sacrifice a...