Alexander Pruss's Blog

We are clearly not morally required to obey laws that tell us to do something immoral. But what about laws that, while not requiring anythi...

Let w be a world where there is only one finite being, George. George has always existed in w . Moreover, each day for George ha...

Here are three levels of anti-Pelagianism: No fallen human being can attain personal union (i.e., union of the relevant sort—su...

Christian materialism holds that the human being is a fully material entity, with no immaterial soul. Here is a problem for this ...

The only argument against theism that is worth considering at all seriously as an argument against theism [note 1] is the inducti...

Today at Baylor's Science and Human Nature conference I am giving a talk where I argue that absurdities follow from the assu...

I am holding out to you my two closed fists. Let us suppose that I know that you know that I know which, if any, of my fists are empty and w...

Suppose a couple uses contraception but conception nonetheless occurs. Then it is true that the couple have put obstacles in the...

Our Department's (unofficial) weekly Bible study is on 1 John. We meet for about 55 minutes every week. The last three weeks...

The first part of today's sermon was quite unique (actually, so were the second and third parts, but it's only on the firs...

According to Jennifer Whiting, our relation to our future selves is like that to our friends. But this view is subject to a parti...

I will argue that if the indicative "If p , then q " in English has mind-independent truth value (a somewhat vague phras...

Perdurantism holds that we either are four-dimensional entities, stretching like worms through spacetime, or temporal stages of th...

When one is not tired of a friend, the expected approaching loss of union with the friend makes one miserable. To be tired of a ...

Here is a new blog on abortion, by a physician and a friend of mine.