Alexander Pruss's Blog

On the mere difference view of disability, one isn’t worse off for being disabled as such , though one is worse off due to ableist arrangeme...

Here is an argument schema. If X is reducible to the natural, then likely the vast improvement of natural science over the last three hun...

Only intelligent beings and things produced by them have objective meaning. Something that is objectively meaningless is not objectively b...

Web design has opted for dark grays as opposed to blacks. For a middle-aged person like me, this makes things less pleasant (and perhaps har...

Here is my talk from the Cracow philosophy of religion conference in September:

The most common kind of moral argument for theism is that theism better fits with there being moral truths (either moral truths in general, ...

We prefer more elegant theories to uglier ones. Why should we think this preference leads to truth? This is a classic question in the philo...

Consider these two candidates for fundamental physical equations: G =8π T G =(8+π) T . These two equations are equally simple. (The second...

Works of art are designed to be observed through a particular perceptual apparatus deployed in a particular way. A music CD may be shiny and...

Inference to best explanation is central to our epistemic lives. Aesthetic judgments about theories are central to inference to best explana...

There is a very large but probably finite number of possible images that the human eye can distinguish. Among these possible ima...

The following argument is valid: Many butterflies are works of art. If God does not exist, then no butterfly is a work of art. So,...

One can fear that a certain medical procedure is wrong, one can hope that one's musical composition is beautiful, one can wis...

According to expressivist views in ethics and aesthetics, sentences like "Murder is wrong" or "The Mona Lisa is bea...

The contemporary naturalist's best bet for an account of conscious states seems to be representationalism: reducing conscious states to ...

Consider a naive relativist theory on which, necessarily, y  is beautiful to x  if and only if x  takes y  to be beautiful. This cannot...