Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose I am sluggish mentally in the morning and function fast mentally in the afternoons. I find myself in a dark room with no information...

It’s easy to generate probabilistic paradoxes in a universe (or multiverse) with infinitely many people (e.g., if infinitely many people rol...

In an argument that David Lewis’s account of possible worlds leads to inductive skepticism, I used this premise: If knowing that x is F ...

Suppose that a fair coin has been flipped in my absence. If it’s heads, there is an independent 50% chance that I will be irresistably brain...

Some people have the intuition that there is something fishy about doing standard Bayesian update on evidence E when one couldn’t have obse...

Suppose I am considering two hypotheses, H 1 and H 2 , and according to H 2 there are more people. Does the fact that I exist give me reas...

Here is a difficulty for the doctrine of the Trinity that I don’t remember coming across before: The Father and the Son have the numerical...