Alexander Pruss's Blog

On All-False Open Futurism (AFOF), any future tensed statement about a future contingent must be false. It is false that there will be a sea...

This is probably an old thing that has been discussed to death, but I only now noticed it. Suppose an open future view on which future conti...

Suppose Alice intends to hit Bob with a stick. There are two ways that the stick could be involved in Alice’s intentions. First, Alice might...

Socrates thought it was important that if you didn't know something, you knew you didn't know it. And he thought that it was importa...

From time to time, one reads the sentiment that if E causes F , then that E occurs does not entail that F occurs. Here is a counterexam...

Consider a view on which all modality is grounded in property entailment: the relation between properties F and G expressed by ...

While looking through an edition of Ockham, I came across this interesting text: Other rules are given: (10) From an impossibilit...

Let "@" be the name of the actual world. The proposition expressed by (1) in English is not entailed by the propositi...