Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose that someone notes that the digits of π starting at some position n start looking like they have an odd pattern, and it occurs to ...

Suppose there is a 75% chance that I have done a specific wrong thing yesterday. (Perhaps I have suffered from some memory loss.) What shoul...

On occasion, I’ve heard undergraduates suggest that naturalism faces a problem with emotions . They feel that a mere computational system wo...

Suppose something bad happens to my friend, and while I am properly motivated in the right degree to alleviate the bad, I just don’t feel b...

It's a pleasant and innocent pastime to look at optical illusions , planning to be initially pulled to error but then to overcome. On t...

You're attending a performance of Wit . Vivian is dying of cancer. If you're human, you have compassion for her. You don't want ...

If I resent your doing A and you didn't do A , then my resentment was perhaps justified (if I was justified in thinking you did A ) but...

Aristotle (in the Rhetoric ) understands fear as an attitude towards a possible but uncertain future bad. I wonder if fear of the ...

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...

On Friday I was feeling somewhat poorly and in the interests of public health (not that I minded!) I opted out of participation in the PhD g...

When I work with material objects, I am sometimes annoyed at things just not working. The cord of the mower gets caught on a bush. 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 ...