Alexander Pruss's Blog

Humans are ridiculous. Humans are only ridiculous if there is a being much greater than humans. So, there is a being much greater than hu...

Let’s say I am eating a dish, say a soup, a salad or a sandwich. At some point there is half-eaten dish, and finally all that’s left are som...

Yesterday, I argued that the good of success contributes to one’s well-being at the time of one’s striving for success rather than at the t...

I was going to post the following as Deep Thoughts XLIII, in a series of posts meant to be largely tautologous or at least trivial statemen...

Are there ways in which it would be better if axiology were different? Here’s a suggestion that comes to mind: It would be better if cowar...

We like to say that Galileo was right that more massive objects don’t fall any faster than lighter ones, at least if we abstract away from f...

Some people think that an outcome of an action foreseen with practical certainty is also intended. If so, then pretty much every case where ...

I just came across this in Shturman and Tiktin’s delightful anthology of Soviet era jokes. (I don't know if it exists in translation.) ...

Aristotle says that a necessary accident of the human being is risability—the capability for laughter. As far as I can tell, necessary accid...

This morning, I was reading the Georgia Supreme Court’s Simpson v. State (1893) decision on a cross-state shooting, and loved this example,...

A commenter asked me what I thought of ontological nihilism, the view that there are no subjects. Here’s what I think: Everybody who accepts...

Here’s a funny logically valid argument: The analytic/synthetic distinction between truths is the same as the a priori / a posteriori di...

I never heard anyone defend this view: "Billions of people exist but I don't."

[This post works better if you have Javascript enabled.] The thesis that [thesis] has not received much of a defense [literature type] . B...

A classic joke: You arrive in the Soviet Union. At the airport you see two people working. One is digging holes in the ground. The other is ...

Some things, such as human life, love, the arts and humor, are very valuable. An interesting question to ask is why they are so valuable? ...

For some years now, my big kids and I have occasionally played a game we call Exemplify. It works great for three people on a walk. The basi...

I know that I have two hands. With a bit of thought, I now know a number of truths that it seems no ordinary person has ever known before: ...

I just got evidence that I am dead, in an email that starts: Dear expired [organization] member, You might think this is pretty weak eviden...

The meaning of life is a contingent constant of the story about the same as the particles. The state of the basic sense of the following op...