Alexander Pruss's Blog

I've been thinking about Einstein's nice argument for the relativity of simultaneity in his popular book . The argument starts with ...

It seems that music is a sound, and sound is constituted by vibrations of a surrounding medium, i.e., typically air. But you can listen to a...

Jones definitively rejects God in this life. He dies. Should God give Jones a second chance at salvation? While an endless--or just extremel...

A couple of days ago, I was reading an article whose author first committed to the Bible being "the Word of God" and then a page l...

I want to make a distinction that I've long thought is quite important, but which I think is not made enough. Suppose the theist respond...

Consider: Case 1: There are two countably infinite sets, A and B, of strangers. The people are all alike in morally relevant ways. I get to...

Sally is in moderate pain and opts for a painless medical intervention that extends her life by one more day just because she wants to exper...

Jabba the Hutt asks for a passionate kiss. You really don't want to do it and you don't. So he asks you again the next day. And agai...

It is permissible to center one's life on God's love. To center one’s life on anything other than God is idolatry. Idolatry is imper...

On my causal powers account of modality , p is possible provided that either p is true, or something has an n th order power to make p tr...

This argument is valid and every premise is plausible: An elementary particle is located at every point where its wavefunction is non-zero. ...

An object is gunky provided that all of its parts have proper parts. Gunk is usually considered a really outré possibility. I want to offer ...

This argument is valid: Only God is perfect. Every part of God is perfect. So, every part of God is identical with God. So, God has no prope...

It's an old maxim of Aristotelian metaphysics that substances do not have substantial proper parts. Here's an argument for it, in th...

The doctrines of incarnation, resurrection and real presence certainly require us to believe ordinary language existence claims about bodies...