Alexander Pruss's Blog

Infamously, Aristotle thought that in animal reproduction (including the human case) the male contributed form and the female the matter. I...

A messy Irenaean world which leaves much to be desired and then grows in value due to our contribution has a great value. A perfectionistic...

From time to time I wonder why it is that we focus on big evils in discussing the problem of evil. After all, first consider this argument: ...

One of the old puzzles of Christology is why it is that in us the soul and body together compose a person, but they do not do so in Christ. ...

Either AI with human-like behavior is a person or is not. We should not deliberately produce AI with human-like behavior when that AI is a...

In his 1979 classic paper , Rowe says that a necessary condition for an “omniscient, wholly good ( O G ) being” to fail to prevent an evil s...

Aquinas thinks it would be unfitting for God to become incarnate as a non-rational creature. In Summa Theologiae III.4.1 , his reasoning is...

In some of my work, I use the example of a pill which gives one that warm glow that one has when one has done something sefless and morally ...

Suppose that someone notes that the digits of π starting at some position n start looking like they have an odd pattern, and it occurs to ...

Suppose union dualism is true (I am a composite consisting of soul and body) and I am looking at a red cube. Then I am consciously aware of ...

Consider the consent argument for antinatalism (the view that human reproduction is morally wrong) that we shouldn’t impose great risks on p...

Sometimes I have some onerous task that we seem to have a duty to perform. And then something happens—perhaps we learn something or perhaps ...

Corruptionism is the Christian view that at death we cease to exist, and only return to existence at the resurrection of the dead. There are...

It has occurred to me that there is a kind of fine-tuning of multiverse theories. If there is too large a variety of universes within a mul...

I think the historical Aquinas’ solution to how God is one in three persons is a relative identity view that posits two kinds of identity: ...