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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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Kenny Pearce @kennypearce.bsky.social · Jun 3
My latest paper, “Foundational Grounding and Four Sources of Contingency,” is now up at Faith and Philosophy!
place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphil...
Foundational Grounding and Four Sources of Contingency
By Kenneth L. Pearce, Published on 01/01/25
place.asburyseminary.edu
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philosophymark.bsky.social
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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chanda.blacksky.app
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
kennypearce.bsky.social
"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

place.asburyseminary.edu/faithandphil...
Ritual Knowledge
By Terence Cuneo, Published on 10/01/14
place.asburyseminary.edu
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
kennypearce.bsky.social
This was nice to see today.
www.pdcnet.org/philtheol/co...
#philosophy #c18
Online First: November 7, 2025 Philosophy & Theology ISSN 0890-2461 DOI: 10.5840/philtheol2025113187 Which Language of Nature for Berkeley’s God? Laura Berchielli Clermont Auvergne University 1. Pearce and Turbayne Two commentators have emphasized the centrality of linguistic struc- ture to Berkeley’s philosophy and each has dedicated a book to this notion. They are, respectively, Colin Turbayne’s The Myth of Metaphor (first published in 1962, then revised in 1970) and Kenneth Pearce’s Language and the Structure of Berkeley’s World (2017).
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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freedom.press
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
kennypearce.bsky.social
www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/nazi...
The Church Better Start Taking Nazification Seriously - Christianity Today
Tucker Carlson hosted neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes on his podcast. The stakes are high for American Christians.
www.christianitytoday.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
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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250yearsagonews.bsky.social
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.
Oxford North
October 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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zachweinersmith.bsky.social
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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weirdalf.bsky.social
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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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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
screenshot of an email saying: "To the Penn Community: For 285 years, Penn has been anchored and guided by continuous self-improvement, using education as a ladder for opportunity, and advancing discoveries that serve our community, our nation, and the world. Since receiving the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education on October 1, I have sought input from faculty, alumni, trustees, students, staff and others who care deeply about Penn. The goal was to ensure that our response reflected our values and the perspectives of our broad community. Earlier today, I informed the U.S. Department of Education that Penn respectfully declines to sign the proposed Compact. As requested, we also provided focused feedback highlighting areas of existing alignment as well as substantive concerns. At Penn, we are committed to merit-based achievement and accountability. The long-standing partnership between American higher education and the federal government has greatly benefited society and our nation. Shared goals and investment in talent and ideas will turn possibility into progress. I am grateful to the Penn community for your thoughtful input and for what you bring to our University and our missions every day. Sincerely, J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD President University of Pennsylvania"
October 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
kennypearce.bsky.social
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
Tips Learn how to turn ideas into images.
October 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
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.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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unenthusiast.com Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · Oct 12
In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez.bsky.social hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · Oct 12
"The chancellor approved it"
October 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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apnews.com
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
kennypearce.bsky.social
Children's literature in the 'news': theonion.com/u-s-military...
U.S. Military Carries Out Strike On Scuffy The Tugboat
ARLINGTON, VA—Saying the Pentagon had acted swiftly on an insider tip about the vessel having a “big adventure” planned, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. military had car...
theonion.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
kennypearce.bsky.social
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
kennypearce.bsky.social
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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adapalmer.bsky.social
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
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
Oh. My. God.

www.popsci.com/environment/...
First known wild ‘grue jay’ hybrid spotted in Texas
Green and blue jays are crossing paths as temperatures rise.
www.popsci.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
kennypearce.bsky.social
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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lastpositivist.bsky.social
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
kennypearce.bsky.social
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