Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider this thesis, which both Augustine and Aquinas would accept: Value supervenes on being (VSB): How valuable reality is is determine...

The three most influential problems of omniscience are: Boethius’ problem of foreknowledge: What is known is necessarily so, and thus if G...

Klaus: Sometimes how well or badly off you are at time t 1 depends on what happens at a later time t 2 . A particularly compelling case of ...

Plausibly: There is a “minimal humanly observable duration” (mhod) such that a human cannot have a conscious state—say, a pain—shorter tha...

There are two parts of Aristotle’s theory that are hard to fit together. First, we have Aristotle’s view of future contingents, on which ...