Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose that morality is grounded in God’s commands. What are God’s commands? The most obvious idea would be that God’s commands are speech...

Here is a simple moral preferability circle. Suppose there are infinite many human strangers numbered ..., −3, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ... all o...

People often levy an arbitrariness objection against divine command theory: If God simply chooses what we ought, why did he choose to comm...

Plausibly: There is a collection K of atoms forming an early stage of the developmental history of a particular human, where it is vague ...

Suppose that we lived lives like ours in a world (possible or not) whose metaphysics included nothing like moral duties except that there wa...

One of the earliest and most important discoveries in Western philosophy was: Doing the right thing is sometimes bad for you (in non-moral...

Suppose that the captain impersonates an admiral and yells: “Turn hard to starboard!” The sailors ought to turn hard to starboard and the ca...

I am impressed by the idea that other kinds of beings from humans can appropriately have different doxastic practices from ours, in light o...

Theistic Natural Law (TNL) theory seems to be subject to the Euthyphro problem much as divine command theory (DCT) is. On DCT, the Euthyphro...

I think one of the most powerful objections to divine command theory is MacIntyre’s question as to which divine attributes make it be the ca...

It looks like the laws of physics include "free parameters", constants that we feel could well have had other values than they do....

I was thinking about the method of cases in ethics, and it made me think of what we do when we apply the method as a reverse engineering of ...

If Divine Command Theory is true, necessarily, A is obligatory if and only if God commands A . Necessarily, if there are cre...

Both philosophers and mathematicians attempt to give nontrivial necessary and sufficient conditions for various properties. But philoso...

Either God does or does not have moral obligations. If he has moral obligations, divine command theory seems to be false. Divine co...

A standard line of objection against divine command theories is centered on the counterfactual: Even if God commanded it, tortur...