Alexander Pruss

Alexander Pruss
Alexander Pruss
Born	January 5, 1973
Alma mater	University of Western Ontario; (BSc, 1991); University of British Columbia ; (PhD, 1996); University of Pittsburgh; (PhD, 2001)
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	Baylor University
Theses	Possible Worlds: What They Are Good For and What They Are (2001); Symmetrization, Green’s Functions, Harmonic Measures and Difference Equations (1996);
Main interests	Metaphysics, philosophy of religion, applied ethics
Notable ideas	Gale–Pruss cosmological argument

Alexander Robert Pruss (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).

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