Browsing Philosophy by Author "Pearce, Kenneth"
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Are We Free to Break the Laws of Providence?
(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 ... -
Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
(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
(Bloomsbury, 2017) -
Counteressential Conditionals
(2016) -
Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy
(2020)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
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2019) -
Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil
(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 ... -
Locke, Arnauld, and Abstract Ideas
(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
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Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge
(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
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)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
(2012)
