Alexander Pruss's Blog

A standard picture of final causation is this. A has a teleological directedness to engaging in activity F for the sake of producing B . T...

This is a followup on the preceding post . 1. Whenever the rational credence of p is 0.5 on some evidence base E , at least 50% of human ag...

Normally, we take a given measurement is a sample of a bell-curve distribution centered on the true value. But we have to be careful. Suppos...

You weigh a bag of marbles on a scale that you have no information about the accuracy of, and the scale says that the bag weighs 342 grams. ...

I intuitively find the following picture very plausible. On the one hand, there are mathematical claims, like the Banach-Tarski Theorem or E...

The moral intuitions of people who are a constituent part of a horrendously evil whole shouldn't be trusted absent significant evidence ...

I wonder if virtue epistemology isn't particularly well-poised to solve the problem of prior probabilities. To a first approximation, yo...

I had a really good time at the ACPA over the weekend, but I also had some spare time at the airport, on the plane and in the hotel, so I en...

Start with these assumptions: Laws of nature are grounded in the powers of things. (I.e., Aristotelian picture of laws.) Space can be infi...

Prudential rationality is about what an agent should do in the light of what is good or bad for the agent. Prudential or self-interested rat...

By fundamental chaos I mean a violation of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, a situation that occurs for no cause at all, something brut...

The Principle of Indifference says that we should assign equal probabilities to outcomes that are on par. Why? The thing to say is surely: ...

Suppose that (a) memory connections are constitutive of personal identity and (b) fission of memories destroys a person. If one accepts (a),...

In a lovely recent paper , Andrew Bailey has argued for the priority principle, that we think our thoughts not derivatively from another ent...

Causal finitism holds that the causal history of anything is finite. On purely formal grounds (and assuming the Axiom of Choice--or at least...