Alexander Pruss's Blog

A haecceity H of x is a property of an entity such that necessarily x exists if and only if x instantiates H . Haecceities are normally...

Some philosophers worry about “principles of individuation” that make two things of one kind be different from another. Suppose we share tha...

It seems to me that the presentist can only de re refer to past (or future—but that's less of a problem) individuals if ther...

In an earlier post , I showed that presentists can count infinities—i.e., that presentists can give a paraphrase for sentences lik...

Once one has an adverbial ontology, like the one I used to help with the Incarnation, one no longer needs the parts of a substance i...

Carnap's objective prior probability measure was designed to make induction possible. Almost nobody uses Carnap's probability ...