Alexander Pruss's Blog

Grotius had a weird view: it is never permissible to lie, but “for purposes of natural law”, only assertions to people who had a right to th...

Here’s a funny logically valid argument: The analytic/synthetic distinction between truths is the same as the a priori / a posteriori di...

One way for physicalists to handle the apparent differences between mental and physical properties is to liken the difference to that betwee...

Consider the Grim Reaper (GR) paradox. Fred’s alive at midnight. Only a GR can kill him. Each GR has an alarm with a wakeup time. When the a...

In the 1960s, it dawned on philosophers of science that: Other things being equal, low-probability explanation confers equally good unders...

On reflection, my paradox of short pains can be simplified. Start with: Whether I have had a pain does not depend on the future. It is i...

Abstract: Classical countably additive real-valued probabilities come at a philosophical cost: in many infinite situations, they assign the...

Consider these two very plausible theses: Whether I have pain at time t does not depend on any future facts. There is a length of time δ...

Here’s a natural thing to say. The sentence “I promise to try to ϕ ” should be analyzed as straightforwardly an instance of the schema: ...

The problem of the unity of consciousness for materialists is what makes activity in different areas of the physical mind come together into...

Bennett offers this account of positive vs. negative instrumentality. If the volume of the space of possible bodily movements occupied by d...

“Baylor University seeks application for a postdoctoral fellowship for up to three years from those working in virtue ethics, moral psycholo...

Much (but not all) contemporary philosophy of mind is written as if microphysics were fundamental physics. But as far as I know, only on tho...

In Bostock , the Supreme Court ruled that hiring discrimination against a gay person is discrimination on the basis of sex, and hence forbid...

In two papers ( here and here ), I explored two different concepts of symmetry for conditional probabilities. The concept of strong invaria...