Kenny Pearce
@kennypearce.bsky.social
I read old books & am confused about God.
Philosophy prof (currently James Madison University, formerly Trinity College Dublin).
Latest book: http://bit.ly/2QrnJxl
Latest paper: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol41/iss1/5/
Philosophy prof (currently James Madison University, formerly Trinity College Dublin).
Latest book: http://bit.ly/2QrnJxl
Latest paper: https://place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphilosophy/vol41/iss1/5/
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Step 1: refuse to draw any distinction between "phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking".
#philosophy #c17
#philosophy #c17
October 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Step 1: refuse to draw any distinction between "phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking".
#philosophy #c17
#philosophy #c17
Page proofs!
This is for the Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy.
#philosophy #c18
This is for the Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy.
#philosophy #c18
July 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Page proofs!
This is for the Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy.
#philosophy #c18
This is for the Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy.
#philosophy #c18
In all seriousness, for all the 17th century texts I read, I don’t think I’ve seen this meaning of ‘eviction’ before!
(Image from OED.)
(Image from OED.)
June 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
In all seriousness, for all the 17th century texts I read, I don’t think I’ve seen this meaning of ‘eviction’ before!
(Image from OED.)
(Image from OED.)
June 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Samuel Clarke's little brother John wrote several works defending S's views on space, time, and God, as well as editing S's posthumous works. So I was really interested in this abit of sibling disagreement...until I just discovered this is a completely different John Clarke.
June 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Samuel Clarke's little brother John wrote several works defending S's views on space, time, and God, as well as editing S's posthumous works. So I was really interested in this abit of sibling disagreement...until I just discovered this is a completely different John Clarke.
Reading John Clarke’s 1719 Boyle lectures, it often seems like he really just wants to talk about science, but he’s supposed to be doing apologetics, so he makes up weird fictional atheists so the science he wants to talk about can be an answer to their objections.
#philosophy #c18
#philosophy #c18
June 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Reading John Clarke’s 1719 Boyle lectures, it often seems like he really just wants to talk about science, but he’s supposed to be doing apologetics, so he makes up weird fictional atheists so the science he wants to talk about can be an answer to their objections.
#philosophy #c18
#philosophy #c18
The faculty research posters in my department's hallway have been updated for the first time since I arrived! 🙂
April 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
The faculty research posters in my department's hallway have been updated for the first time since I arrived! 🙂
This finally arrived!
April 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
This finally arrived!
I don't exactly remember, but it was definitely shorter than Descartes's.
March 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I don't exactly remember, but it was definitely shorter than Descartes's.
I was using an English translation of Constantius’s writings from the Oxford World Classics series. The front of the book had a portrait of Constantius. It looked a lot like this portrait of Montaigne, but with more hair. /END
#c16
#c16
March 16, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I was using an English translation of Constantius’s writings from the Oxford World Classics series. The front of the book had a portrait of Constantius. It looked a lot like this portrait of Montaigne, but with more hair. /END
#c16
#c16
Unstaged photo from my desk this week. To the best of my knowledge "Advice from a Huckleberry" is NOT the title of a section of the Critique of Pure Reason.
#philosophy #c18
#philosophy #c18
March 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Unstaged photo from my desk this week. To the best of my knowledge "Advice from a Huckleberry" is NOT the title of a section of the Critique of Pure Reason.
#philosophy #c18
#philosophy #c18
You know you've really made it as a public intellectual when your latest pamphlet is the subject of a debate between a theologian and a cavalry officer.
March 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
You know you've really made it as a public intellectual when your latest pamphlet is the subject of a debate between a theologian and a cavalry officer.
March 3, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I must say, this is one of the better quiz questions I've ever written.
February 9, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I must say, this is one of the better quiz questions I've ever written.
February 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Outline slide for an upcoming talk at Hampden-Sydney College.
I'll be presenting overlapping material in a panel for the online C-APA, organized by @Helenreflects & Kristen Irwin.
The philosophers who endorse the listed claims include (at least) Leibniz, Masham, & Berkeley.
#philosophy #c18
I'll be presenting overlapping material in a panel for the online C-APA, organized by @Helenreflects & Kristen Irwin.
The philosophers who endorse the listed claims include (at least) Leibniz, Masham, & Berkeley.
#philosophy #c18
January 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Outline slide for an upcoming talk at Hampden-Sydney College.
I'll be presenting overlapping material in a panel for the online C-APA, organized by @Helenreflects & Kristen Irwin.
The philosophers who endorse the listed claims include (at least) Leibniz, Masham, & Berkeley.
#philosophy #c18
I'll be presenting overlapping material in a panel for the online C-APA, organized by @Helenreflects & Kristen Irwin.
The philosophers who endorse the listed claims include (at least) Leibniz, Masham, & Berkeley.
#philosophy #c18
January 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
January 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Really interesting that George Hickes (1684) connects popular sovereignty with polygenesis.
archive.org/details/bim_...
#philosophy #c17
archive.org/details/bim_...
#philosophy #c17
January 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Really interesting that George Hickes (1684) connects popular sovereignty with polygenesis.
archive.org/details/bim_...
#philosophy #c17
archive.org/details/bim_...
#philosophy #c17
Found in my recipe box.
There’s an Epicurious recipe printed in 2010 on the other side.
There’s an Epicurious recipe printed in 2010 on the other side.
January 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Found in my recipe box.
There’s an Epicurious recipe printed in 2010 on the other side.
There’s an Epicurious recipe printed in 2010 on the other side.