Alexander Pruss's Blog

On the question of what has a substantial form, I have tended to think something similar to van Inwagen’s answer to the question of what w...

A substance’s existence does not ontologically depend on the state of anything beyond the substance. But a typical artifact depends on absen...

I have a weird view: when a dog or another substance ceases to exist, all its particles cease to exist, being replaced by new particles with...

I’ve been fond of the theory that materiality is just the occupation of space. But here is a problem for that view. I have argued previousl...

An interesting metaphysics project that could use more work is to minimize the number of fundamental non-intentional relations between subst...

Here's a compelling narrative. Start with the bundle theory of substance: substances are nothing but bundles of properties. Then observe...

This isn't meant to be a very good theory, but it's a start. The primitive notion I want to explicate is this notion of t...

Thesis: Necessarily, it is appropriate to love x in the primary (or focal) sense of "love" if and only if x is a sub...