Alexander Pruss's Blog

I had three family members turn away from me while I read two prepared philosophical sentences, using three different masks and no mask, and...

Necessarily, every finite person is in the image and likeness of God. We should not make something in the image and likeness of God except...

Just as different pairs of shoes are useful for different occasions, different masks are useful for different occasions. Here's my colle...

Thesis : If we stick to real-numbered probabilities, genuine independence of events A and B cannot be defined in terms of any condition o...

Suppose I have infinitely many coins and I toss them. I then load each of them equally in favor of heads and toss them all again. All the to...

Catholics believe that: The only permissible method of human reproduction is marital intercourse. Supposing we accept (1), we are led to...

Let P be a Popper function on some algebra F of events on Ω . There is a natural way to define a probability comparison given P , namely A...

Suppose we have a complete finitely-additive conditional probability P (⋅|⋅) on some algebra F of events on a space Ω (i.e., P is a Poppe...

In “Underdetermination of infinitesimal probabilities” , following a referee’s suggestion, I allow that qualitative (i.e., comparative) prob...

Let ⪅ be a qualitative probability comparison for some collection F of subsets of a space Ω . Say that A  ≈  B iff A  ⪅  B and B  ⪅  A , ...

There are two approaches to generalizing probabilities beyond the classical real-valued numerical approach. Switch the values of the proba...

There is research that some video games can relieve pain. And boredom saps endurance. So the Stealth board  product which lets you play game...

It is widely held by Thomists that anything that a creature can cause can be caused directly by God without any creaturely involvement. Now ...

Kirk has come to a planet with two intelligent species in the universe, the Oligons and the Pollakons. There are a million Oligons and a tri...

Suppose that we have some sort of (not merely real-valued) probability assignment P to the Lebesgue measurable subsets of the unit circle Ω...