Alexander Pruss's Blog

In an earlier post , I said that an account that insists that all fundamental causation is simultaneous but secures the diachronic aspects o...

Consider the Causal Simultaneity Thesis (CST) that all causation is simultaneous. Assume that simultaneity is absolute (rather than relative...

Here’s a tempting principle: If x and y ground z , then the fusion of x and y grounds z . In other words, we don’t need proper plura...

Start with the concept of “narrowly physical” for facts about the arrangement of physical entities and first-order physical properties such ...

Endicott has observed that functionalism in the philosophy of mind contradicts the widely accepted supervenience of the mental on the physi...

Taking the privation theory literally, evil is constituted by the non-existence of something that should exist. This leads to a lot of puzzl...

Aquinas believes that it follows from omnipotence that: Any being that depends on creatures can be created by God without its depending on...

It is tempting to say that I value a wager W at x provided that I would be willing to pay any amount up to x for W and unwilling to pay ...

We might call the following three statements "the Paradox of Charity": In charity, we love our neighbor primarily because of our...

Suppose I take a nasty fall while biking. But I remain conscious. Here is the obvious first thing for a formal epistemologist to do: increas...

Functionalism holds that two (deterministic) minds think the same thoughts when they engage in the same computation and have the same inputs...

One of the well-known challenges in accounting for killing in a just war is the thought that even soldiers fighting on a side without justic...

Consider this argument: An action is intrinsically evil if and only if it is wrong to do no matter what. In doing anything wrong, one doe...

To avoid scepticism, we need to trust that human epistemic practices and reality match up. This trust is clearly at least a part of a centra...

The metaphysical problem of evil consists in the contradiction between: Everything that exists is God or is created by God. God is not an...