Alexander Pruss's Blog

The local five minute hypothesis is that the earth, with everything on it, and the environment five light-minutes out from it, come into exi...

On numerical-sameness-without-identity views, two entities that share their matter count as one when we are counting objects. Here is a cur...

Mike Rea’s numerical-sameness-without-identity solution to the problem of material constitution holds that the statue and the lump have nume...

Suppose I am a quack and I announce: These green pills cured the king of Ruritania of lung cancer. I am lying, of course. The green pill...

A perdurantist who believes that particles are fundamental will typically think that the truly fundamental physical entities are instantaneo...

I have begun work with a working title of Norms, Natures and God , which should be a book on how positing Aristotelian natures solves proble...

One of the main problems with perdurance is thought to be that it makes intrinsic properties be primarily properties of slices, and only der...

Here are some desiderata for a view of the persistence of objects: Ordinary objects can change with respect to intrinsic properties. Ordi...

Some ethical truths are intuitively obvious but it is hard to understand the reasons for them. For instance, sexual behavior should be, at l...

Assume vagueness is not epistemic. This seems a safe statement: If it is vaguely true that the world contains severe pain, then definitely...

Suppose you believe the following: For any physical objects, the x s, there is a physical object y with the following properties: each o...

Monism holds there is only one (or at least one fundamental) thing in reality: the universe. Pluralism, as normally taken, holds there are m...

It is said that if an agent has inconsistent credences, she is Dutch Bookable. Whether this is true depends on how the agent calculates expe...

Some people, most notably Robin Collins, have run teleological arguments from the discoverability of the laws of nature. But I doubt that w...

Humean accounts of modality, like Sider’s, work as follows. We first take some privileged truths, including all the mathematical ones, and a...