Alexander Pruss's Blog

Observations and risk of confirmation/disconfirmation

Epistemic utilities and decision theories

"Swapping memories"

An instability in Newcomb one-boxing

Virtue and value

Nuclear deterrence, part II: False threats

Dispositions to do something wrong

Memory theories of personal identity and faster-than-light dependence

Killing coiled and straight snakes

Proportionate causality

More on velocity

Experiencing something as happening to you

More decision theory stuff

Position: Assistant Professor of Bioethics, Tenure Track, Department of Philosophy, Baylor University

My AI policy

An immediate regret principle

An odd decision theory

Gaze dualism and omnisubjectivity

Diversity of inner lives

Extrinsic well-being and the open future

Consciousness and the open future

Discrete time and Aristotle's argument for an infinite past

What if there is no tomorrow?

An attempt to define possible futures for open futurism

Aristotelianism and transformative technology

Optimalism and logical possibility

All-false open futurism

Yet another counterexample to act utilitarianism

Entailment and Open Future views

Open Theism and divine promises

Open theism and the Incarnation

The Reverse Special Composition Question

Natural kinds across categories

Reasons and direct support