Alexander Pruss's Blog

Some philosophers think that for your right action to be morally worthy you have to know that the action is right. On the contrary, there a...

There is a certain kind of symmetry between praise and blame. We praise someone who incurs a cost to themselves by going above and beyond ob...

According to Hume, for one to be responsible for an action, the action must flow from one’s character. But the actions that we praise people...

Sometimes supererogation is defined by a conjunction of a positive evaluation of performing the action and a denial of a negative evaluation...

Wright and Bengson note an apparent intuitive asymmetry in our side-effect judgments. We blame people for not avoiding bad effects, even wh...

Suppose that Bob spent a month making a birthday cake for Alice that was only slightly better than what was available in the store, and Bob ...

Discussion of my previous post has made me realize that, it seems, we’re more apt to be skeptical about the culpability of someone whose ev...

Suppose Bob is known by Alice to be an act utilitarian. Then Bob won’t believe when Alice asserts p in cases where Bob knows that by Alice’...

Suppose: Alice sacrifices her life to protect her innocent comrades. Bob decides that if he ever has the opportunity to sacrifice his lif...

I suspect that many philosophers would rather have their work be criticized as being morally perverse than as being stupid or merely ...

Hartry Field agrees with Putnam that values are non-factual. Of course, there is a fact of the matter about whether x values F ,...