Alexander Pruss's Blog

Some kinds of roles succeed in imposing norms on those in roles of that kind. For instance, friends should help each other because they are ...

Suppose you are essentially an animal. If your cerebrum were transplanted into a vat and the rest of your body—including, of course, the bra...

Alice, Bob and Chuck each come into existence at 1 o'clock. Alice lives for one hour. She feels continuous and unchanging morally innoce...

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I just posted the slides from my SCP Midwest talk on marriage as a natural kind.

I wonder if it's rational to choose to play a game precisely in order to win. Winning is a practice-internal goal. Does this goal make s...

One can always take an indeterministic theory and turn it deterministic in some way or other while preserving empirical predictions. Bohmian...

I wonder how psychologically feasible it would be to generally engage in competitive sports or other games with one's intention being th...

We think of competitive team sports as involving two groups of people, with cooperation within each group but competition between the groups...

The meaning of life is a contingent constant of the story about the same as the particles. The state of the basic sense of the following op...

There are two different pictures of space: space is made of points or space is made of regions. I will argue that quantum mechanics naturall...

Consider this natural law argument: Rational functioning is a basic good. One may never intentionally act against a basic good. In intending...

Some people don't want to say that there are just as many even natural numbers as natural numbers. But suppose that you and I will spend...

My 11-year-old complained to me that his mathematics teacher tells them things without proof. This made me realize that the sorts of things ...

One might with pull a small plant from one's garden with little thought. But one wouldn't do that to a full grown tree. Of course it...