Alexander Pruss's Blog

I’ve been toying with an argument for dualism along these lines: Octopuses are conscious. Technologically advanced aliens are or would be...

Lately I’ve been starting my philosophy of mind course with Carolyn Gilman’s short story about unconscious but highly intelligent aliens. ...

One way to present epistemicism is to say that vague concepts have precise boundaries, but it is not possible for us to know these bounda...

I think some Aristotelian philosophers are inclined to think that our nature is to be rational animals, so that all rational animals would b...

The Catholic Church teaches that it is wrong for us to intentionally reproduce by any means other than marital intercourse (though things ca...

A classic theological question is whether it was possible for one person of the Trinity to be simultaneously multiply incarnate. The questio...

My nine-year-old daughter suggested that the fact that aliens aren't mentioned in the Bible gave us good reason to think there are...

I was once rather amused by an undergraduate in my Philosophy of Love and Sex class who complained that the sexual ethics material...

If Christianity is correct, there is at least a moderate probability that there are embodied intelligent persons other than humans...