Alexander Pruss's Blog

Consider two cases where a patient ended up with an implanted device D that benefits the patient by ameliorating an otherwise fatal medical...

One of the reasons to be suspicious of artifacts is that it seems magical to think we have the power to create a new object just by thinking...

Magical things happen. The glorious glow of the sunset, the elegant glide of the turkey vulture or the delight of conversation with friends....

We take for granted that magic involves the supernatural and science does not. At the same time, we believe that there is no such...

Humean theories of causation make causal facts supervene on facts about correlations between events. The simplest theory was Hume...