Alexander Pruss's Blog

Unger famously argues that he doesn’t exist, by claiming a contradiction between three claims (I am quoting (1) and (2) verbatim, but simpl...

I want to think a bit about conservative Christian views of sex and gender, but before that I want to offer two stories to motivate a crucia...

Alice, Bob and Carl are triumvirate that unanimously votes for some legislation, for the following reasons: Alice thinks that hard work an...

In paradigm instances of parental action, my reason for action is the objective fact that I am a parent, not because of the subjective fact ...

In the previous post , I showed that Goodman and Quine’s counting method fails for objects that have too much overlap. I think (though the ...

In yesterday’s post , I noted that Goodman and Quine’s nominalist mereological definition of what it is to say that there are more cats tha...

Goodman and Quine have a clever way of saying that there are more cats than dogs without invoking sets, numbers or other abstracta. The tri...

Suppose I eat a chocolate bar and this causes me to have a trope of pleasure. Given assentiality of origins, if I had eaten a numerically di...

Suppose that there is a simple majority election, with two candidates, and there is a large odd number of voters. Suppose polling data makes...

There is reason to think that a number of biblical texts—paradigmatically, the Pentateuch—were redacted from multiple sources that scholars ...

In an argument that David Lewis’s account of possible worlds leads to inductive skepticism, I used this premise: If knowing that x is F ...

I did something new and fun this fall: I wrote a computer science paper . It's an analysis of the conditions under which a device equipp...

There is an Aristotelian picture of knowledge on which all knowable things are divided exhaustively and exclusively into sciences by subject...

Assume actual result utilitarianism on which there are facts of the matter about what would transpire given any possible action of mine, and...

I claim that there is no general, straightforward and satisfactory way to define a total comparative probability with the standard axioms us...