Alexander Pruss's Blog

Aquinas says that when a starving person takes food needed for survival from someone who has too much, the act is a case of taking but not s...

We can own dogs, trees, forests, cars, chairs, computers and cupcakes, but of these examples, only dogs and trees really exist. Many of the ...

I've been having fun over the past couple of days fixing a lot of things around the home. Apple Powerbook 190 laptop . My previously ho...

Things owned can be permissibly traded, barring special circumstances. Trade in persons is never permissible. Thus, no one owns a p...

Consider a view on which all modality is grounded in property entailment: the relation between properties F and G expressed by ...

We play a game. There are ten outwardly identical boxes, containing pieces of paper with ink marks on them that are unambiguous i...

There are no artefacts, at least not in any metaphysically serious way. To see this, consider some puzzles that face those who belie...