Alexander Pruss's Blog

Aristotelian natural law approaches provide an attractive middle road between objectivist and subjectivist answers to various normative ques...

A tempting view of mathematics is that mathematicians are discovering not facts about what is true, but about what is provable from what. B...

It is often said that Leibniz’s monads do not literally occupy positions in space. This seems to me to be a mistake, perhaps a mistake Leibn...

Is mathematics about proof or truth? Sometimes mathematicians perform numerical experiments with computers. Goldbach’s Conjecture says that...

The ordinary sentence "There are four chairs in my office" is true (in its ordinary context). Furthermore, its being true tells us...

Let's try another exercise in philosophical imagination. Suppose Platonism and dualism are true. Then consider a theory on which our...

One of the major arguments for scientific realism is that the best explanation for why our best scientific theories are predictively suc...

Despite having a pretty good Pittsburgh education in the philosophy of science, I never before read Ernan McMullin's "A Case...

A standard solution to general sceptical problems is to move to an externalist account of content. Grossly oversimplifying, if what makes a...

Concept C is not further analyzable. If C is an actually-had (by a human being) concept that is not further analyzable, then ...

According to Tarski, Schema (T), of which instances have the form: "..." is true if and only if ..., where the same text i...