Alexander Pruss's Blog

The ordinary sentence "There are four chairs in my office" is true (in its ordinary context). Furthermore, its being true tells us...

Suppose we are four-dimensional. Parthood simpliciter then is an eternal relation between, typically, four-dimensional entities. My heart i...

According to dualist survivalism, at death our bodies perish but we continue to exist with nothing but a soul (until, Christians believe, th...

Plausibly, having satisfied desires contributes to my well-being and having unsatisfied desires contributes to my ill-being, at least in the...

I’ve been thinking about the phrase “ x should know that s ”. (There is probably a literature on this, but blogging just wouldn’t be as muc...

Suppose: Alice sacrifices her life to protect her innocent comrades. Bob decides that if he ever has the opportunity to sacrifice his lif...

Consider these sentences: Intending to kill the wolverine, Alice pulled the trigger and: Intending to get to the mall, Bob started his ...

This morning, I set out to walk to the Philosophy Department. If asked my intention, I might have said that it was to reach the Department. ...

The probability of a proposition p equals the probability that p is true. I have argued that this principle refutes open future views. It...

Parents have the authority to command their children and parents have a special duty to care for children. Officers have special duties of c...

I've been thinking about an argument with this logical form: If suicide is permissible, then slavery is permissible. Slavery is not perm...

Joe thinks chess is an evil game and creates a killer robot tasked with killing the greatest chess player on earth, whoever it might be. Th...

Suppose I toss infinitely many fair coins. By the Law of Large Numbers (and assuming an appropriate version of the Axiom of Choice), with pr...

I should warn readers that all my posts on quantum stuff are very, very sketchy. I'm very much learning the material. In my exploration ...

Suppose at t 1 there are countably infinitely many people with red hats and countably infinitely many people with black hats. You’re one of...