Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose I am designing a simple vacuuming robot not unlike a Roomba, but a little more intelligent. I might set up the robot to have mu...

Consider four cases. In each case, you know that Jones, an innocent person, is drowning and will survive if and only if you throw her a...

Here are three things I would like: Not to be kidnapped by aliens today for medical experiments. To own the Hope Diamond . To own a m...

Suppose Bill is a bachelor and Marcus is married. I claim that <Bill is a bachelor> stands in the same relation to <Bill is a ...

A plausible theory of desire is that x desires A if and only if x is disposed to pursue A (perhaps we should add "as suc...

On a standard view of desire, necessarily, one has a desire for A if and only if one has a tendency to pursue A . But even if t...

I am not the first to discover this particular fallacy—in fact, part of this post is based on ideas I got in conversion from someb...

Note: Portions of the argument below sound like I accept consensual euthanasia. I don't: intentionally killing juridically innoc...

Baptism is, in New Testament times, necessary for salvation. Scripture is clear on this. However, from the early centuries, the Chu...

I guess I have a 18th order desire. This desire is to have a 17th order desire. Why would I want to have a 17th order desire? Becau...

We have, it seems, a hypothetical imperative to brush our teeth: (1) Brush your teeth if you want them to be healthy. Suppose I do want my t...

To say that love is a feeling and the like is really an un-Christian conception. This is the esthetic definition of love and therefore fits ...