Alexander Pruss's Blog

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Start with this: The last bulleted item in this post is not true. Call this token bulleted linguistic item p . Then p is, in fact, the last...

It is always wrong for the state to kill a person for non-payment of taxes. It is sometimes permissible for the state to dissolve a corporat...

The following seem to be true: It is never permissible for the state to force on a non-consenting innocent patient medical procedures very l...

Here are some facts about sex and consent. Without valid consent, sex is always seriously wrong. Merely proxy consent for sex (say, by pare...

If determinism is true, then I always do the best I can do. If I always do the best I can do, I lack moral imperfection. So if determinism i...

This is really very obvious, and no doubt in the literature, but somehow hasn't occurred to me until now. Suppose that a fair coin is to...

One might think that language is a crutch for non-telepaths. If you could sense what I believe, I wouldn't need to assert anything. If y...

The standard mathematical definition is a set is finite provided that its cardinality is a natural number. But what are the natural numbers?...

Rape isn't just wrong, but it is historically among the handful of the very worst types of crimes, sharing that unhappy position with mu...

The perdurantist thinks that we are four-dimensional beings made up of three-dimensional slices, temporal parts, from which we inherit our c...

It seems that I am bent and straight. Minutes earlier, when I was standing up, I was straight. Right now, however, I am sitting and writing ...

It's oft stated that Ockham's razor favors the B-theory over the A-theory, other things being equal. But the theoretical gain here i...

I just posted the paper here . Forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics . Abstract: I shall argue that considerations about frequency-t...

If God exists, the Axiom of Choice is true. For given any set of nonempty sets, surely God could choose a member of each of the nonempty set...