Alexander Pruss's Blog

I've been thinking about cases of preemption of laws of nature. Normally, an instance of a law is explained by the law. Let...

I've been thinking about a framework for really impossible worlds. The first framework I think of is this. A world w is a m...

In a criticism of the Pearce-Pruss account of omnipotence , Scott Hill considers an interesting impossible situation: Every necessary tr...

Crucial to the Kalaam argument is showing that the universe has only a finite past. A standard approach is: If the universe has...

There is almost no philosophy here. :-) Suppose I want to send some data to a device that runs at baud rate a  from a serial device that r...

Let S 1 be the state the universe in fact had five minutes ago and let S 0 be the state the universe in fact had "at" ...

The following seems a logically possible story about how some contingent agent chooses. The agent consciously deliberates between reasons i...

The standard consequence argument for incompatibilism makes use of the operator N p which abbreviates " p and no one has or has e...

Bayesian reasoners will have their credences converge to the truth at different rates depending on their prior probabilities. But...

Suppose that we've observed a dozen randomly chosen ravens and they're all black. We (cautiously) make the obvious infer...

The 2014 Baylor/Georgetown/Notre Dame Philosophy of Religion Conference will be held at Georgetown University October 9 through October 11....

The first meaningful performance did not gets its meaning from earlier meaningful performances. So it seems that meaning precede...

A stranger is drowning in a crocodile-infested river. To pull him out, you'd need to go in the water yourself, and there is a...

Consider this line of thought. To decide to marry y for no reason is unreasonable. To decide to marry y on the grounds that ...

If the notion of the a priori is viable, there is a recursive logical system S , whose soundness is a priori , such that all...