Alexander Pruss's Blog

Stump and Kretzmann give three main concepts of simultaneity in their famous paper : T-simultaneity between items in time E-simultaneity ...

On the growing block theory of time, if God is in time, God grows. God doesn’t grow. So, God is not time or the growing block theory is n...

This is probably the simplest argument for the timelessness of God, and somehow I’ve missed out on it in the past: God does not change. C...

Famously, Boethius says that an eternal being, unlike a merely temporally everlasting being, embraces all of its infinite life at once, “pos...

Suppose that you are an immortal who lived for an infinite amount of time, and each year, your body replaces all its cells with new cells co...

Suppose I know that from now on for an infinite number of years, I will be offered an annual game. A die will be rolled, I will be asked to ...

Here’s an interesting thing. Suppose perdurance is true. Then God cannot be in time. For if perdurantism is true and God is in time, then Go...

All reality is such that it can be known perfectly from the point of view of God. The point of view of God is eternal and timeless. Thus,...

The internal time of a substance is constituted by the causal order within its accidents. But God is a substance that has no accidents. So G...

I want to confess something: I do not find the problem of evil compelling. I think to myself: Here, during the blink of an eye, there are ho...

Scenario 1: You experience a day of deeply meaningful bliss and then are annihilated. Scenario 2: You experience a day of deeply meaningf...

Suppose the minute of the greatest earthly pleasure you’ve ever tasted was repeated, over and over, for eternity, with your memory reset bef...

In my Death and Afterlife class, we were reading about whether immortality is worth having . The following has become clear to me: it is not...

Suppose that objectively, hell lasts forever. But while the first objective year of hell is experienced subjectively as a year l...

I find myself pulled to the following two claims: If nothing lasting can come from human activity (think of Russell's descriptio...

A common mistake about hell, often made by both contemporary advocates of the doctrine and their opponents, is the Horrific Thesis: (HT) I...

Only the eternal is forever. [Actually, this is only a necessary truth on some readings of "forever" and "eternal...

Suppose I am going to live forever. I promise you that I will one day sing Yankee Doodle to you. But I never do. It seems like ...

It seems that the answer has to be negative—isn't the idea utterly absurd? But suppose that an A-theory is true and Fred is a ...

Let w be a world where there is only one finite being, George. George has always existed in w . Moreover, each day for George ha...