Alexander Pruss's Blog

Some people deny the Law of Excluded Middle (LEM--for all p, p or not-p) because they are convinced it leads to fatalism. But they really s...

It is not so easy to state a clear distinction between the A- and B-theories of time. One says things like: "According to the A-theory...

To say that love is a feeling and the like is really an un-Christian conception. This is the esthetic definition of love and therefore fits ...

There are two fairly standard claims about love: benevolence--willing the good--towards the beloved is an essential component of love, and l...

Someone sent me a link to this really nice discussion by John Crosby of disinterested love and von Hildebrand. The idea is that it is a mi...

Suppose x has a duty to love y. Suppose A is an action such that if x loves y, then x is obligated to A. Does it logically follow x is obl...

I shall argue that current evolutionary theory (ET) is compatible with the Intervention Claim (IC) that some biological facts about the deve...

The notes for my last graduate lecture on the Cosmological Argument are available here . I am posting this link here because I think these ...

A parable Fred buys a used car in terrible shape. Off the top of his head, he can see a dozen problems with it: the window is cracked, the ...

I am going to argue that for all anybody knows, evolutionary science might develop in such a way that an Intelligent Design (ID) argument wo...

Consider the following objection to the Catholic faith (this is based on something I got by email): Catholicism includes a large number of d...

Some background Progressive folk in the second half of the twentieth century thought that cohabitation would improve the prospects for marri...

In case anybody's thought that the trolley problem is made-up, here it is , for real, with even higher stakes.

We learn from Frankfurt counterexamples to the Principle of Alternate Possibility that we should not use counterfactuals and nomic modality ...

This is a fun little riddle, coming from a discussion with Dan Johnson. At t 2 Mary believes q because she believes p . At t 1 ( t 1 t 2), ...