Alexander Pruss

If you like philosophy, then boy do I have a blog for you. Alexander Pruss, the unnervingly brilliant Professor at Baylor University, has for some time now been treating the world to his rigorous ruminations.

Pruss is, from one point of view, a philosopher in the style of the eighteenth century: a smart and learned man thinking carefully about all matters of general interest. His two most recent posts perfectly demonstrate this range. Yesterday’s treated of ” Telekenesis and the Unreality of Artefacts ” while this morning’s offers a ” Hypothesis About the Origins of Homophobia .”

But to this generous range he adds total mastery of the severe technical method on which contemporary analytic philosophers pride themselves. It is sometimes slow going, but with patience you should (to paraphrase A.G. Sertillanges) come to savor the bitter and exquisite taste of his careful reasoning.