Pruss
contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy of Religionb. 1973
Alexander R. Pruss is a contemporary philosopher at Baylor University specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics. He is best known for his rigorous defense and reformulation of the Leibnizian cosmological argument and his extensive work on the Principle of Sufficient Reason. His scholarship bridges analytic philosophy and Catholic philosophical theology, bringing formal precision to classical theistic arguments.
Notable Achievements
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Reformulated and defended the Leibnizian cosmological argument in 'The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment' (2006)
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Co-authored 'The Kalām Cosmological Argument' (2018) with Robert Blackwell, strengthening the formal case
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Developed modal logic applications to theistic arguments, including possible worlds analyses of contingency
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Contributed to the defense of the Principle of Sufficient Reason against Humean and probabilistic objections
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Authored 'Infinity, Causation, and Paradox' (2018), analyzing causal and infinite regress problems