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https://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117 Blogger: User Profile: Alexander R Pruss Blogger is a blog publishing tool from Google for easily sharing your thoughts with the world. Blogger makes it simple to post text, photos and video onto your... blogger user profile alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2022/07/necessity-and-open-future.html?showComment=1658092263827 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Necessity and the open future Suppose the future is open. Then it is not true that tomorrow Jones will freely mow the lawn. Moreover, it is necessarily not true that Jon... s blog and the alexander pruss necessity https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/05/aristotles-optimism-and-pessimism.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Aristotle's optimism and pessimism Aristotle seems to accept these three claims: For the most part, things behave in a natural way. Most people are bad. To behave well is ... s blog alexander pruss aristotle optimism https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2022/10/probabilistic-trolleys_27.html?showComment=1728436817549 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Probabilistic trolleys Suppose a trolley is heading towards five people, and you can redirect it towards one. But the trolley needs to go up a hill before it can r... s blog alexander pruss probabilistic trolleys https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-problem-of-induction-in-mathematics.html?showComment=1480804112457 Alexander Pruss's Blog: The problem of induction in mathematics Let's say I have some algorithm that generates the sequence of numbers, and I run ten iterations on the computer and get 1 1.5 1.41666666... problem of induction s blog alexander pruss mathematics https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2012/03/presentism-and-future-based-theodicies.html?showComment=1331919901829 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Presentism and future-based theodicies Suppose that: There was or is a time t at which God was justified in permitting the then-present horrendous evils of the world ... s blog alexander pruss presentism future https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/05/no-event-can-irreducibly-depend-on.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: No event can irreducibly depend on infinitely many things I am now thinking the following principle is likely to be true: (NoInfDep) No event can irreducibly depend on infinitely many things. This... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/08/product-spaces-for-hyperreal-and-full.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Product spaces for hyperreal and full conditional probabilities I think the following is a consequence of a hyperreal variant of the Horn-Tarski extension theorem for measures on boolean algebras: Clai... s blog https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2016/02/presentism-and-theoretical-simplicity.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Presentism and theoretical simplicity It's oft stated that Ockham's razor favors the B-theory over the A-theory, other things being equal. But the theoretical gain here is small:... s blog alexander pruss presentism theoretical https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2007/12/is-eternal-suffering-in-hell-infinite.html?showComment=1299958539659 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Is eternal suffering in hell infinite? The damned will be in hell suffering forever. Does it follow that their overall sufferings will be infinite? I will argue in the negative.... s blog eternal suffering alexander pruss hell https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2019/11/the-argument-from-apparently-gratuitous.html?showComment=1574403577069 Alexander Pruss's Blog: The argument from apparently gratuitous evil I think the following two claims are plausible: If God exists and there is a lot of evil, then we would expect that some of the evil is su... s blog the argument alexander pruss apparently https://facesofthehindenburg.blogspot.com/2008/12/captain-max-pruss.html?showComment=1598922684715 Faces of the Hindenburg: Captain Max Pruss Biographies of each of the 97 passengers and crew who were aboard the Hindenburg when it burned at Lakehurst, NJ on the evening of May 6th, 1937. faces of the hindenburg captain max pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/12/vagueness-definitions-and-translations.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Vagueness, definitions and translations If we are to define a vague term, the definiens will need to be vague in exactly the same way as the definiendum is. But it is e... s blog alexander pruss vagueness definitions https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/01/i-can-jump-100-feet-up-in-air.html?showComment=1611580929884 Alexander Pruss's Blog: I can jump 100 feet up in the air Consider a possible world w 1 which is just like the actual world, except in one respect. In w 1 , in exactly a minute, I jump up with all ... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2009/10/from-grim-reaper-paradox-to-kalaam.html?showComment=1254992538921 Alexander Pruss's Blog: From the Grim Reaper paradox to the Kalaam argument A Grim Reaper (GR) timed to go off at t 0 is an entity which does the following at exactly t 0 . If Fred is not alive at t 0 , ... the grim reaper s blog https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/08/antiexplanation.html?showComment=1629502891235 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Antiexplanation If an explanation is a truth or hypothesis that removes or would remove mystery from the proposition to be explained, then an antiexplanatio... s blog alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2013/08/causal-theory-of-content-religious.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Causal theory of content, religious experience, numinousness and naturalism If naturalism (of the non-Aristotelian sort) is true, the causal theory of content is true. (It's the only decent naturalistic... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/12/musings-on-imitation-reflection.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Speculations on imitation, reflection, symmetry, truth, justice and value Beartooth Butte / USDA/Forest Service Imitation is a kind of reflection, and reflection seems to introduce a new symmetry into the world... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/08/would-it-have-been-crazy-to-think.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Would it have been crazy to think everything is made of water? According to Aristotle, Thales held that the whole physical world is made out of water. I don't know if Aristotle was an accurate interpret... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/04/yet-another-argument-against-physician.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Yet another argument against physician assisted suicide Years ago, I read a clever argument against physician assisted suicide that held that medical procedures need informed consent, and informed... s blog yet another alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2013/08/an-argument-for-incommensurable-goods.html?showComment=1377918878515 Alexander Pruss's Blog: An argument for incommensurable goods One of the upshots of a number of my posts on the limitations of probability theory is that there are events that are probabilist... s blog an argument alexander pruss goods https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2012/01/presentism-and-epicurus-death-argument.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Presentism and Epicurus' death argument Becoming friendless is a harm, even if one does not know that one's last friend has just betrayed one. Likewise, one is harmed when ... s blog alexander pruss presentism epicurus https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/10/proportionality-and-deterrence.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Proportionality and deterrence There are many contexts where a necessary condition of the permissibility of a course of action is a kind of proportionality between the goo... s blog alexander pruss proportionality deterrence https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2007/11/counting-on-people.html?showComment=1194182460000 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Counting on people It seems to me that there is an epistemological asymmetry when relying on the good or bad actions of others. Karla has a sterling character... s blog counting on alexander pruss people https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2025/03/our-baylor-alligator.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Our Baylor alligator A year or two ago, some juvenile alligators moved into our area or were moved in (we are right on the edge of the alligator zone in Waco). I... s blog alexander pruss baylor alligator https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2012/03/analogy-and-properties.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Analogy and properties Spot is a cat and Tob is a table. Spot has four legs and Tob has four legs. But "has four legs" in these two claims is analogical. ... s blog alexander pruss analogy properties https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/11/perfect-rationality-and-omniscience.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Perfect rationality and omniscience A perfectly rational agent who is not omniscient can find itself in lottery situations, i.e., situations where it is clear that there are m... s blog alexander pruss perfect rationality https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/10/preventing-suffering.html?showComment=1540909444903 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Preventing suffering Theodicies according to which sufferings make possible greater moral goods are often subjected to this objection: If so, why should we preve... s blog alexander pruss preventing suffering https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/01/killing-and-letting-die.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Killing and letting die It is murder to disconnect a patient who can only survive with a ventilator without consent and in order to inherit from them. Every murde... s blog alexander pruss killing letting https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/11/determinism-and-thought.html?showComment=1635849659213 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Determinism and thought Occasionally, people have thought that one can refute determinism as follows: If determinism is true, then all our thinking is determined.... s blog alexander pruss determinism thought https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2019/12/joint-powers.html?showComment=1576362864866 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Joint powers Suppose neither Alice nor Bob has the power to budge the sofa, but together they can lift it. Causal powers belong to substances, and Alice ... s blog alexander pruss joint powers https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/09/lets-not-exaggerate-centrality-of.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Let's not exaggerate the centrality of virtue to ethics Virtues are important. They are useful: they internalize the moral law and allow us to make the right decision quickly, which we often need ... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2009/09/verifiability.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Verifiability I am back from the Philosophy of Cosmology conference at Oxford. There are probably going to be several posts inspired in various... s blog alexander pruss verifiability https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2012/03/presentism-and-future-based-theodicies.html?showComment=1332249330384 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Presentism and future-based theodicies Suppose that: There was or is a time t at which God was justified in permitting the then-present horrendous evils of the world ... s blog alexander pruss presentism future https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/07/pdf-viewer-for-android.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: PDF Viewer for Android I acquired an Android device, but haven't been too happy with any of the free PDF viewers I tried for ebook reading. E.g., some don't keep ... s blog pdf viewer alexander pruss android https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-blink-of-eye-response-to-problem-of.html?showComment=1504781995241 Alexander Pruss's Blog: The blink of an eye response to the problem of evil I want to confess something: I do not find the problem of evil compelling. I think to myself: Here, during the blink of an eye, there are ho... blink of an eye https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/07/generalizing-supererogation.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Generalizing supererogation My preferred way of understanding supererogation is that an action is supererogatory provided that it is permissible and more burdensome tha... s blog alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/02/eliminativist-relational-dualism.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Eliminativist relational dualism Here is a combination of views that, as far as I know, is missing from the literature: eliminativism about persons multigrade relational ... s blog alexander pruss relational dualism https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/02/voluntariness-of-beliefs.html?showComment=1519804027617 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Voluntariness of beliefs The following claims are incompatible: Beliefs are never under our direct voluntary control. Beliefs are high credences. Credences are d... s blog alexander pruss beliefs https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/04/yet-another-argument-against-physician.html?showComment=1713366018484 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Yet another argument against physician assisted suicide Years ago, I read a clever argument against physician assisted suicide that held that medical procedures need informed consent, and informed... s blog yet another alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2013/04/what-if-intelligent-design-is.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: What if Intelligent Design is irrefutable? Consider this valid argument: (Premise) Intelligent Design is irrefutable. (Premise) Intelligent Design is incompatible with ev... s blog what if intelligent design alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-blink-of-eye-response-to-problem-of.html?showComment=1503800794593 Alexander Pruss's Blog: The blink of an eye response to the problem of evil I want to confess something: I do not find the problem of evil compelling. I think to myself: Here, during the blink of an eye, there are ho... blink of an eye https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/06/thomsons-core-memory-paradox.html?showComment=1592910164121 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Thomson's core memory paradox This is a minor twist on the previous post . Magnetic core memory (long obsolete!) stored bits in the magnetization of tiny little rings. ... s blog core memory alexander pruss thomson https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-puzzle-of-engagements.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: The puzzle of engagements The idea of a marriage engagement is kind of weird. On its face, it seems to be a promise to make a promise: the two people promise each oth... s blog the puzzle alexander pruss engagements https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/06/fungibility-persons-and-materiality.html?showComment=1402231505758 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Fungibility, persons and materiality This seems plausible: All purely material objects are fungible. No persons are fungible. So, no persons are purely material objects... s blog alexander pruss fungibility persons https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/10/limiting-frequencies-and-probabilities.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Limiting frequencies and probabilities You are one of infinitely many blindfolded people arranged in a line with a beginning and no end. Some people have a red hat and other... s blog alexander pruss limiting frequencies https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/12/contrastive-explanations-of-free.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Contrastive explanations of free choices Suppose you grant that a sufficient condition for P to be an explanation why Q rather than S is: (a) P is an explanation why Q and not S, ... s blog alexander pruss explanations free https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/01/tim-oconnor-coming-to-baylor.html?showComment=1485912655382 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Tim O'Connor coming to Baylor We hired Tim O'Connor starting Fall 2017. It's very exciting for metaphysics at Baylor. s blog alexander pruss tim connor https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/11/determinism-and-thought.html?showComment=1635867973974 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Determinism and thought Occasionally, people have thought that one can refute determinism as follows: If determinism is true, then all our thinking is determined.... s blog alexander pruss determinism thought https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/12/dualism-humans-and-galaxies.html?showComment=1735778489648 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Dualism, humans and galaxies Here is a mildly interesting thing I just noticed: given dualism, we cannot say that we are a part of the Milky Way galaxy. For galaxies, if... s blog alexander pruss dualism humans https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2023/10/gods-timelessness-a-theory-of-time-and.html?showComment=1698174542137 Alexander Pruss's Blog: God's timelessness, the A-theory of time, and two kinds of Cambridge change Classical theism holds that God is timeless and knows all objective truths. According to A-theories of time, objective truths change (e.g., ... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2023/10/a-very-slight-tweak-on-at-at-theory-of.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: A slight tweak to the at-at theory of change The at-at theory of change says: Change is things being one way at one time and another way at another time. McTaggart complained that t... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/11/a-funny-discrete-view-of-time.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: A funny discrete view of time A number of my posts are exercises in philosophical imagination rather than serious philosophical theories. These exercises can ha... s blog alexander pruss funny discrete https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/01/two-arguments-for-extended-simples.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Two arguments for extended simples A simple is something that lacks proper parts. An extended simple is a simple that occupies a region of space that is more than a point... s blog alexander pruss two arguments https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/04/theism-and-scientific-non-realism_1548.html?showComment=1397214084247 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Theism and scientific non-realism One of the major arguments for scientific realism is that the best explanation for why our best scientific theories are predictively suc... s blog alexander pruss theism scientific https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/06/existential-inertia-and-relativity.html?showComment=1624488032519 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Existential inertia and relativity According to the doctrine of existential inertia, objects have a metaphysical tendency to continue existing absent interference. Existential... s blog existential inertia alexander pruss relativity https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-problem-of-sleep.html?showComment=1474386905933 Alexander Pruss's Blog: The problem of sleep Consider this natural law argument: Rational functioning is a basic good. One may never intentionally act against a basic good. In intending... s blog the problem alexander pruss sleep https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/11/nomic-functionalism.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Nomic functionalism Functionalism says that of metaphysical necessity, whenever x has the same functional state as a system y with internal mental state M , t... s blog alexander pruss nomic functionalism https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2013/05/ Alexander Pruss's Blog: May 2013 s blog alexander pruss may https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-blink-of-eye-response-to-problem-of.html?showComment=1503802657453 Alexander Pruss's Blog: The blink of an eye response to the problem of evil I want to confess something: I do not find the problem of evil compelling. I think to myself: Here, during the blink of an eye, there are ho... blink of an eye https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2020/07/reproduction-and-holiness-of-god.html?showComment=1596836193691 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Reproduction and the holiness of God Necessarily, every finite person is in the image and likeness of God. We should not make something in the image and likeness of God except... s blog and the alexander pruss reproduction https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/12/if-psr-is-false-there-are-very-many.html?showComment=1323459690753 Alexander Pruss's Blog: If the PSR is false, there are very many unexplained phenomena Suppose the Principle of Sufficient Reason is false. Then consider an infinitude of phenomena such as: A brick did not causelessly come in... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/01/pressuring-people-to-violate-conscience.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Pressuring people to violate conscience If you pressure someone to act against their deeply-set moral beliefs, then your pressure is an action which, if successful, results in: t... s blog alexander pruss people violate https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2008/05/knowledge-of-future.html?showComment=1210827720000 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Knowledge of the future It is sometimes claimed that our knowledge of the future is foggy and lacking in detail, that we know very little about the futur... s blog of the alexander pruss knowledge https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2019/03/god-and-b-theory-of-time.html?showComment=1553225290807 Alexander Pruss's Blog: God and the B-theory of time All reality is such that it can be known perfectly from the point of view of God. The point of view of God is eternal and timeless. Thus,... s blog and the alexander pruss god https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/01/jan-26-anscombe-centre-talk-defining.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Jan 26 Bios Centre Talk: Defining Murder On January 26, 2021 at 18:30 GMT / 12:30 PM Central / 1:30 PM Eastern, I will be giving a work in progress Zoom talk on Defining Murder at t... s blog alexander pruss jan https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2008/05/living-heavenly-life-one-reason.html?showComment=1210271100000 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Living the heavenly life: One reason the doctrine of the Trinity matters The stress laid by traditional Christianity on getting right what may seem to be abstruse aspects of the doctrine of the Trinity is,... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2013/12/substance-causation-agent-causation-and.html?showComment=1388520934742 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Substance causation, agent causation and time Aristotelians about causation think all causation is substance causation. Events are causes only derivatively. What does the real... s blog alexander pruss substance causation https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2015/09/no-one-can-make-you-freely-do-serious.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: No one can make you freely do a serious wrong I've just been struck by the obviousness of this principle: It would be unjust for you to be punished for something that someone else made y... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/08/dentistry-deontology-double-effect-and.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Dentistry, deontology, Double Effect and hypnosis You are a dentist and a teenage Hitler comes to you to have a bad tooth removed. You only have available an anaesthetic with this feature: W... s blog double effect alexander pruss dentistry https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2013/08/opening-at-baylor.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Faculty opening at Baylor Philosophy BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, Waco, TX announces a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the Department of Philosophy beginning in the fall of 2... s blog faculty opening alexander pruss baylor https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2024/05/an-argument-for-purgatory.html?showComment=1716295442422 Alexander Pruss's Blog: An argument for purgatory Here is a plausible argument for purgatory. Start with these observations: Some people end up in heaven even though at the time of death ... s blog an argument alexander pruss purgatory https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2017/10/materialist-intuition-against.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: A materialist intuition against materialism The following argument is valid: It is metaphysically impossible for us to become wholly immaterial. If we are wholly material, then func... s blog alexander pruss materialist intuition https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2008/04/forking-model-of-free-will.html?showComment=1208786040000 Alexander Pruss's Blog: The symmetric forking model of free will Until very recently (the last hour!) I thought the following was quite a good model of what typically happens when a normal human agen... s blog alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/08/mercenary-motives.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Mercenary motives A stranger is drowning in a crocodile-infested river. To pull him out, you'd need to go in the water yourself, and there is a mod... s blog alexander pruss mercenary motives https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/10/two-tenure-track-jobs-at-baylor.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Two tenure track jobs at Baylor We have two tenure-track jobs at Baylor. Both are open, but we have different preferred (but not required) specializations for them: Job 1... s blog tenure track alexander pruss two https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2016/12/3d-printable-cookie-cutters-with.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: 3D-printable cookie cutters with Inkscape and OpenSCAD We thought that our 4-year-old would enjoy a Pikachu cookie cutter for Christmas, but I didn't like the existing designs on Thingiverse. So ... s blog https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2022/05/physicalism-and-progress-of-science.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Physicalism and the progress of science People sometimes use the progress of science to argue for physicalism about the mind. But it seems to me that Dostoevskii made more progress... s blog and the alexander pruss physicalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pruss Alexander Pruss - Wikipedia alexander pruss wikipedia https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2008/04/deep-thoughts-ix.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Deep Thoughts IX s blog deep thoughts alexander pruss ix https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/02/counting-infinitely-many-headaches.html?showComment=1518273976652 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Counting infinitely many headaches If the worries in this post work, then the argument in this one needs improvement. Suppose there are two groups of people, the A s and the... s blog alexander pruss counting many https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2014/02/why-is-proving-mathematical-theorem-a.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Why is proving a mathematical theorem an a priori process? When I prove a mathematical theorem using a paper and a pen (I dislike using pencils for this), I constantly rely on empirical data: I look ... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/05/heaven-and-materialism-return-of.html?showComment=1525818636409 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Heaven and materialism: The return of the swollen head problem Plausibly, there is a maximum information density for human brains. This means that if internal mental states supervene on the information c... https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/11/two-theories-of-divine-conservation.html?showComment=1635970205837 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Two theories of divine conservation Here are two theories of divine conservation, tendentiously labeled: Occasionalist conservation: That a creature that previously existed c... s blog alexander pruss two theories https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/02/voluntariness-of-beliefs.html?showComment=1519750365097 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Voluntariness of beliefs The following claims are incompatible: Beliefs are never under our direct voluntary control. Beliefs are high credences. Credences are d... s blog alexander pruss beliefs https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/08/an-argument-for-theism-from-certain.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: An argument for theism from certain values Some things, such as human life, love, the arts and humor, are very valuable. An interesting question to ask is why they are so valuable? ... s blog an argument alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2018/12/group-belief.html?showComment=1545939819481 Alexander Pruss's Blog: Group "belief" Even though nobody thinks Strong AI has been achieved, we attribute beliefs to computer systems and software: Microsoft Word thinks that I... s blog alexander pruss group belief https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2012/01/smith-tollefsen-and-pruss-on-lying.html Edward Feser: Smith, Tollefsen, and Pruss on lying Last summer, theologian Janet E. Smith published an article in First Things defending the moral legitimacy, under certain circumstances, of... edward feser smith pruss lying https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/12/estimates-assertions-and-vagueness.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Estimates, assertions and vagueness I ask you to give me an estimate of how long a table is. You say "950 mm". What did you do? You didn't assert that the table was 9... s blog alexander pruss estimates assertions https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2013/08/another-religious-experience-argument.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Another religious experience argument against naturalism If something supernatural exists or if something has the causal power to produce something supernatural, then naturalism is false. If it'... s blog religious experience alexander pruss another https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/12/more-on-lying.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: More on lying Janet Smith has written a reply to my and Chris Tollefsen's critique of her defense of lying in some circumstances. There is a discussion... s blog more on alexander pruss lying https://facesofthehindenburg.blogspot.com/2008/12/captain-max-pruss.html?showComment=1643693833402 Faces of the Hindenburg: Captain Max Pruss Biographies of each of the 97 passengers and crew who were aboard the Hindenburg when it burned at Lakehurst, NJ on the evening of May 6th, 1937. faces of the hindenburg captain max pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2023/11/relativistic-aristotelian-beginnings.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Relativistic Aristotelian beginnings From purely geometrical facts , it follows that every spatially extended entity is arbitrarily small at its beginning and at its end in almo... s blog alexander pruss aristotelian beginnings https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-method-for-living-forever.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: A method for living forever Maybe you have a cancer that would kill you in three months. So, get a powerful rocket. Accelerate close to the speed of light, and make a... s blog for living alexander pruss method https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2021/08/analog-photography.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Analog photography For over a decade, all my photography has been digital, but this spring I finally pulled out the 1939 Voigtlaender Vito 35mm camera I inheri... s blog alexander pruss analog photography https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-set-of.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: ... is the set of ... The locution "...is the set of..." occurs all over philosophy (2365 times in JSTOR 's philosophy collection). Sometimes the phrase is ... s blog the set alexander pruss https://alexanderpruss.blogspot.com/2011/12/vegetable-oil-as-band-aid-remover-and.html Alexander Pruss's Blog: Vegetable oil as band-aid remover and cleaner I was removing my son's band-aid, and in so doing I was hurting him. Half way through, I had a brilliant idea. 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