Alexander Pruss's Blog

Let me, as often, think out loud. Counterfactuals seem to be an extremely powerful philosophical tool. Except that they never se...

Consider the following two very plausible explanatory intuitions: Roses are flowers or violets are yellow because roses are flowe...

It is clear from the Parable of the Good Samaritan that Christian love for neighbor must extend beyond the confines of the Church....

There are two approaches to Christianity (and perhaps to other religions). One is with a "metaphysicalizing impulse (MI)...

I am reading Horwich's little book on truth. Horwich's minimalism is generated by one axiom: Only propositions are true, ...

It is fairly standard to say that the truthmaker of a proposition p is what makes p be true. But suppose we accept a non-deflat...

Consider the concept of a judging . A judging is a believing operating occurrently and consciously (this is stipulative). Someti...

As my previous posts indicate, I've been thinking a lot about truth. Let me make a big picture comment. I find it striking just...

We play a game. There are ten outwardly identical boxes, containing pieces of paper with ink marks on them that are unambiguous i...

I doubt that a deflationist about truth—someone who understoods truth at base in terms of Tarski's Schema (T)—who does not make us...

I think it would be valuable if a good philosopher of religion were to carefully look at some of the most carefully checked contem...

It is tempting to identify sentence tokens with certain noises or inscriptions. But this is mistaken, if we want meaning and trut...

Sometimes the Christian may feel depressed over present errors and distortions, supported by intellectual and cultural elites, def...

The following arguments came out of a fascinating conversation with Sam Calvin. I think neither of us thinks they are conclusive, bu...

According to Tarski, Schema (T), of which instances have the form: "..." is true if and only if ..., where the same text i...