Alexander Pruss's Blog

Here is an argument schema. If X is reducible to the natural, then likely the vast improvement of natural science over the last three hun...

Suppose we combine a Humean account of causation on which causation is a function of the pattern of intrinsically acausal events in reality ...

I have argued that the causal account of metaphysical possibility implies the Principle of Sufficient Reason (see Section 2.2.6.6 here ). Th...

Koons and I have used causal paradoxes of infinity, such as Grim Reapers, to argue against infinite causal chains, and hence against an infi...

Starting with my dissertation, I’ve defended an account of metaphysical possibility on which it is nothing other than causal possibility. I ...

Here is a dilemma for best-systems accounts of laws. Either: law-based scientific explanations invoke the lawlike generalization itself a...

Suppose, highly controversially, that no defensible atheist account of objective value is possible. Now consider a paradigmatic apparently g...

Suppose we keep fixed in our epistemic background K general facts about human life and the breadth and depth of evil in the world, and cons...

There is some discussion in the literature whether the problem of hiddenness is a species of the problem of evil. I think the theist should ...

Some computer languages (notably Python) favor duck-typing : instead of relying on checking whether an object officially falls under a type ...

There are three main views of laws: Humeanism: Laws are a summing up of the most important patterns in the arrangement of things in spacet...

Consider major dividing lines in ontology, such as between trope theory and Platonism. Assume theism. Then all possibilities for everything ...

I was exposed to Covid recently, so by University rules I need to mask for a while. I don't particularly love masking at the gym, but I ...

According to the best-systems account of laws (BSA), the fundamental laws of nature are the axioms of the system that are true and optimize ...

According to the probabilistic best-systems account of laws (PBSA), the fundamental laws of nature are the axioms of the system that optimiz...