Alexander Pruss's Blog

A serious problem with Lewis's account of counterfactuals is that as Elga and Pruss have shown, Lewis's similarity account licenses ...

The damned will be in hell suffering forever. Does it follow that their overall sufferings will be infinite? I will argue in the negative....

The standard modal ontological argument (e.g., in Plantinga, with roots in Leibniz) says basically: Possibly, necessarily God exists. Theref...

According to the psychological identity theorist, if the contents of your mind (e.g., brain or soul) are copied into another mind (brain or ...

I recently read, and very much enjoyed, Eifelheim (can be bought from amazon , or downloaded for free in pdf format from the author's ...

Given an appropriate notion of maximal greatness, maximal greatness entails maximal greatness in all worlds. By the S5 axiom of modal logic...

A sufficient condition for a fact to be normative is that it is a reason to do or not to do something. But a fact F is a reason not to den...

Some Aristotelians believe the following thesis: When a bit of matter comes to be a part of a substance, it ceases to exist. I.e., the bit...

Theism entails that evil is not a positive reality, since all positive reality either is God or is continually sustained in existence by God...

We can take items in the world up into language. An easy, though very unlikely, example would be if I came across a bunch of rocks randomly...

Vatican II's Lumen Gentium 8 says: This is the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostoli...

Yesterday, I came across a link to wowio . They have a catalogue of free ebooks, including ones from major publishers. The ebooks are in P...

We want to live forever. What does that mean? First suggestion: I want it to be the case that at every future time I exist. But that...

One of my graduate students recently suggested in discussion that if one rejects the Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR), our knowledge of ...

The best accounts of what it is to be a perfection all define perfection in terms of God: e.g., that to be a perfection is to be an intrinsi...