Alexander Pruss
Alexander Pruss | |
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| Born | January 5, 1973 |
| Education | |
| Education | University of Western Ontario (BSc, 1991) University of British Columbia (PhD, 1996) University of Pittsburgh (PhD, 2001) |
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| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy |
| Institutions | Baylor University |
| Main interests | Metaphysics, philosophy of religion, applied ethics |
| Notable ideas | Gale–Pruss cosmological argument |
Alexander Robert Pruss (/prʌs/; born January 5, 1973) is a Canadian philosopher and mathematician. He is currently a professor of philosophy and the co-director of graduate studies in philosophy at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
His best known book is The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (2006). He is also the author of the books, Actuality, Possibility and Worlds (2011), and One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (2012), and a number of academic papers on religion and theology. He maintains his own philosophy blog and contributed to the Prosblogion philosophy of religion blog. He is currently the Guinness World Record Holder for greatest vertical distance climbed on a climbing wall in one hour (individual) and fastest mile on climbing wall (male).