Alexander Pruss's Blog

Suppose that Alice is a morally upright officer fighting against an unjust aggressor in a bloody war. The aggressor’s murderous acts include...

It is tempting to conflate what is worth desiring with what is worth pursuing. But there seem to be cases where things are worth desiring bu...

Start with this observation: Commonly used forms of fallacious reasoning are typically distortions of good forms of reasoning. For insta...

According to a standard view of desire, if one desires that p , then one is disposed to bring it about that p . But suppose I desire ...