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Kenny Pearce
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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/
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My latest paper, “Foundational Grounding and Four Sources of Contingency,” is now up at Faith and Philosophy!
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Foundational Grounding and Four Sources of Contingency
By Kenneth L. Pearce, Published on 01/01/25
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I'm a philosopher interested in how our understanding of what it is to be a person can shape our understanding of the dynamics of interpersonal relationships and conflict of all kinds. Looking for new ways to connect three years after quitting X.
#FirstDayOnBluesky
November 17, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
"Christianity is not a body of propositions...[It] is, rather, a way of life that is thoroughly practical. It is dedicated to engaging God...a central aim of the Christian life is not to theorize about God but to know God."
-Terence Cuneo

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Ritual Knowledge
By Terence Cuneo, Published on 10/01/14
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November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Police and judges need a refresher on the First Amendment.

Kansas’ Marion County just provided the syllabus — the expensive way.
Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment
Marion County cops got their First Amendment lesson the hard way. Police elsewhere should take note
freedom.press
November 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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So, I get several scam emails like this a day, but there's something special about a man wanting to write articles about casinos and sports betting whose fake name is Robert Poverty.
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Oct. 26, 1775: The chancellor, masters and scholars of Oxford University address King George III to declare their “utter abhorrence” of the “seditious proceedings, by which some of your Majesty's American subjects” are resisting royal authority. The chancellor happens to Prime Minister Lord North.
October 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Full solution to all of ethics here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ethics-8
#smbc
October 23, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Kant on Righteous Spinoza, and some Adam Smith
open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
Kant on Righteous Spinoza, and some Adam Smith
Last Friday I attended a fascinating paper by Shterna S.
open.substack.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The person that some experts say is the president of the United States has been accused of posting what appears to be a video on what some critics are calling Saturday
October 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 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
October 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Editorial Manager account created
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Lovely write-up about great things happening in my department!
www.jmu.edu/news/cal/202...
www.jmu.edu
October 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
My colleague Alan Levinovitz in the New York Times!
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/h...
Autism, A.D.H.D., Anxiety: Can a Diagnosis Make You Better?
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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September 25, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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In #c17 seventeenth century Iceland, 40% of the male population was named Jon Jonson.

Friend was transcribing a witchcraft trial where accused, plaintiff, victim, judge, & two witnesses were all Jon Jonson.

I console myself with this story whenever Renaissance Italy gives me too many Giovannis.
September 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
In my study of #c17 & #c18 #philosophy, I’ve encountered only one John Smith, but three Samuel Johnsons, three John Clarkes, and three Edward Synges.
September 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Just got an email from a scam academic journal asking if I wanted to "explore new advances in White Psychodrama" and it's just got me like: buddy, I can watch the news myself.
September 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
By now I’m used to board books being a bit butchered compared to the originals, but this is a new low: the board book of There’s a Wocket in my Pocket HAS NO WOCKET IN IT!
September 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM