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Are We Free to Break the Laws of Providence?
Pearce, Kenneth (2020)Can I be free to perform an action if God has decided to ensure that I do not choose that action? I show that Molinists and simple foreknowl- edge theorists are committed to answering in the affirmative. This is problematic ... -
Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion
Pearce, Kenneth (Oxford University Press, 2022)In 1705, Mary Astell and Damaris Masham both published works advocating for women’s use of individual judgment in matters of religion. Although both philosophers advocate for women’s education and intellectual autonomy, ... -
Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
Pearce, Kenneth (2017)Berkeley’s immaterialism aims to undermine Descartes’s skeptical arguments by denying that the connection between sensory perception and reality is contingent. However, this seems to undermine Berkeley’s (alleged) defense ... -
Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion
Pearce, Kenneth (Bloomsbury, 2017) -
Counteressential Conditionals
Pearce, Kenneth (2016) -
Counterpossible Dependence and the Efficacy of the Divine Will
Pearce, Kenneth (2017) -
Foundational Grounding and Creaturely Freedom
Pearce, Kenneth (2021)The argument from contingency for the existence of God is best understood as a request for an explanation of the total sequence of causes and effects in the universe (‘History’ for short). Many puzzles about how there could ... -
Foundational Grounding and the Argument from Contingency
Pearce, Kenneth (2017) -
God's Perfect Will: Remarks on Johnston and O'Connor
Pearce, Kenneth (Oxford University Press, 2022)How can God's creative decision be free? Why would God create anything at all? Why would God create a world like this one, with all of its evils? These puzzles lie at the heart of classical theism. Mark Johnston has argued ... -
Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy
Pearce, Kenneth (2021)Malebranche argues that ideas are representative beings existing in God. He defends this thesis by an inference to the best explanation of human perception. It is well known that Malebranche’s theory of vision in God ... -
Infinite Power and Finite Powers
Pearce, Kenneth (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) -
Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil
Pearce, Kenneth (2020)The logical problem of evil is the appearance of inconsistency between the existence of God and the existence of any evil at all. A defence against the logical problem of evil is an argument that purports to show that ... -
Leibniz and the veridicality of body perceptions
Pearce, Kenneth; Kiely, Kevin (2016) -
Locke, Arnauld, and Abstract Ideas
Pearce, Kenneth (2019)A great deal of the criticism directed at Locke’s theory of abstract ideas assumes that a Lockean abstract idea is a special kind of idea which by its very nature either represents many diverse particulars or represents ... -
Mereological Idealism
Pearce, Kenneth (Oxford University Press, 2017) -
Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge
Pearce, Kenneth (2020)The central unifying element in the philosophy of Peter Browne (d. 1735) is his theory of analogy. Although Browne's theory was originally developed to deal with some problems about religious language, Browne regards analogy ... -
Thinking with the Cartesians and Speaking with the Vulgar: Extrinsic Denomination in the Philosophy of Antoine Arnauld
Pearce, Kenneth (2022)Arnauld follows Descartes in denying that sensible qualities like color are modes of external objects. Yet, unlike Malebranche, he resists the apparent implication that ordinary statements like ‘this marble is white’ are ... -
Understanding Omnipotence
Pearce, Kenneth (2012) -
What Descartes Doubted, Berkeley Denied, and Kant Endorsed
Pearce, Kenneth (2019)