Alexander Pruss

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 the "greatest vertical distance climbed on a climbing wall in one hour (individual)" and the "fastest mile on climbing wall (male)."

Biography

Alexander Pruss first lived in Poland, but emigrated to Canada. He went to the University of Western Ontario, studying physics and mathematics and graduating with a B.Sc. in these fields in 1991.

He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of British Columbia with a dissertation on Symmetrization, Green’s Functions, Harmonic Measures and Difference Equations, under John J. F. Fournier in 1996, and published several papers in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society and other mathematical journals. Afterwards, he began graduate work in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He completed his dissertation, Possible Worlds: What They Are and What They Are Good For, under Nicholas Rescher in 2001.

Pruss began teaching philosophy at Georgetown University in 2001, earning tenure in 2006. In 2007, he began to teach philosophy at Baylor University. He is now the director of graduate studies for the Baylor Philosophy Department. He has taught various courses, including graduate seminars on the philosophy of time, metaphysics, the cosmological and ontological arguments for the existence of God, modality, free will, and history of philosophy.