Alexander Pruss's Blog

I stipulate that: According to pure divine temporalism , God is a being in time without a timeless existence all of whose decisions are ma...

If you have always done the morally best you could, you are not culpable for anything. If determinism is true, you have always done the on...

Suppose we accept the following causal power account of what it means for reasons to enter deliberation: A complex of reasons R counts as...

Strong anti-libertarians believe that choices need to be determined by our motives in order to be free.  Weak anti-libertarians believe that...

A concept that I haven't seen much contemporary discussion of is effort . A jstor title search finds 18 entries , most notabl...

(Premise) If x chooses A , then x chooses A over some alternative B such that x deliberated over both A and B . (Premise)...

The following argument is valid: Normally, if an embodied person freely does A , then x could have done otherwise than she did. (P...

Say that George chooses to do A knowledgeably provided that the beliefs on the basis of which George chooses to do A are in fac...