Alexander Pruss's Blog

If physician assisted suicide is permissible, then it would have been permissible for early Christians facing being tortured to death by th...

In a paper that was very important to me when I wrote it, I argue that the Principle of Double Effect should deal with accomplishment rathe...

I've been thinking about an argument with this logical form: If suicide is permissible, then slavery is permissible. Slavery is not perm...

Joe thinks chess is an evil game and creates a killer robot tasked with killing the greatest chess player on earth, whoever it might be. Th...

Not every kind of killing is a murder. Only an intentional killing is a murder. And not every intentional killing is a murder--just killing ...

(Premise) It is wrong to euthanize a patient who does not give valid consent for euthanasia. (Premise) Valid consent is not th...

Consider this argument: (Premise) It is not professional for a physician to perform a procedure when there is not sufficient scien...

Derek Humphry wrote, as part of a defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS): The help of a physician [in PAS] is imperative, b...