Alexander Pruss's Blog

Some people think that simplicity of laws of nature is a guide to truth, and some think beauty of laws of nature is. One might ask: Is the b...

Suppose we have a full conditional probability P ( A ∣ B ) defined for all pairs of events (stipulating that P ( A ∣⌀) = 1 if we wish). I...

Here would be a really bad kind of moral dilemma: It is certain that unless you murder one innocent person now, you will freely become a m...

There are many contexts where a necessary condition of the permissibility of a course of action is a kind of proportionality between the goo...

Mark (10:11-12) and Luke (16:18) have rather simple and straightforward statements on divorce and remarriage: if you divorce and remarry, yo...

When I think about McTaggart’s famous argument against the A-theory of time—the theory that it is an objective fact about the universe what ...

We have four jobs in philosophy or closely adjacent areas at Baylor, with most of the deadlines coming in mid-October: Tenure-track open-are...

Sometimes one talks of humans as having a higher value than other animals, and hence it being appropriate to treat them better. While humans...

Over the last couple of days I have realized that the laws of physics are rather more complex than they seem. The lovely equations like G  =...

According to Hume, for one to be responsible for an action, the action must flow from one’s character. But the actions that we praise people...

On a "Humean" Best System Account (BSA) of laws of nature, the fundamental laws are the axioms of the system of laws that best com...

Say that a function P  :  F  → [0,1] where F is a σ -algebra of subsets of Ω is chanceable provided that it is metaphysically possible t...

Here are three plausible theses: You’re only culpable for a morally wrong choice determined by a relevantly abnormal mental state if you a...

Suppose there is a 75% chance that I have done a specific wrong thing yesterday. (Perhaps I have suffered from some memory loss.) What shoul...

A generous patron makes an offer to you. You are to pick out a positive integer n and you will get 2 n units of value. You have the abilit...