Alexander Pruss's Blog

Let N be the natural numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, .... Let [ n ] be the first n natural or hypernatural numbers (the hypernaturals are an exte...

I am getting to the following intuition as to why it's not appropriate to resolve zero-probability problems, like the problem of the pro...

You are one of a countably infinite number of blindfolded people arranged in a line. You have no idea where in the line you are. Each ...

I've settled on this method for grading weekly undergraduate papers. I write short comments in the body of the paper. For longer comme...

I claim: Either (a) one cannot desire what one does not believe to be worth having or (b) it is possible to have no reason, even prima ...

There are three levels of instrumental rationality, in order of decreasing thickness: Rationality with regard to genuine ends that one ...

Hell needs to be presented in such a way that nobody would be willing to go there. It needs to be shown that hell is an expression of divin...

Note added later: This follows by applying Theorems 3.1 and 3.2 of Schervish et al. to the standard part of P. Suppose P is a finitely...

In case anybody is curious what hobby stuff I've been doing lately, here are two of my recent instructables. Bow sight: Vibrating bass...

This photography is rather interesting.

Here's an intuition I have. Suppose that I somehow knew that a dozen of boxes have appeared ex nihilo for no cause (not eve...

I observe some ravens, and they are all black. This gives me good reason to think all ravens are black. This is an inductive inf...

The oldest Holocaust survivor, Antoni Dobrowolski, who went to Auschwitz as punishment for teaching young poles has died at 108 . The ar...

Benacerraf-style arguments that numbers couldn't be any particular collection of abstract entities (say, some particular set-theore...

Consider: Many instances of F have explanations fitting an evolutionary explanatory schema. There are no instances of F that...