Alexander Pruss's Blog

I’ve been toying with an argument for dualism along these lines: Octopuses are conscious. Technologically advanced aliens are or would be...

Here is a very plausible pair of claims: The Son could have become incarnate as a different human being. God foreknew many centuries ahea...

Here is a mildly interesting thing I just noticed: given dualism, we cannot say that we are a part of the Milky Way galaxy. For galaxies, if...

There are four main families of views of who we are: Bodies (or organisms) Brains (or at least cerebra) Body-soul composites Souls. F...

According to simple dualism , our immaterial souls are the bearers of our mental states and we are these souls. We have bodies, but the bod...

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

What matters most are things like people, love, understanding, courage, friendship, beauty, etc. According to many contemporary meta...