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Department of Philosophy & Religion James Madison University 61 East Grace Street, MSC 8006 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 |
Kenneth L. PearceCurriculum Vitae |
pearcekl@jmu.edu 504-568-2830 https://www.kennypearce.net |
| 2022 - Present | Academic Unit Head, Department of Philosophy & Religion Professor of Philosophy |
| 2020 - 2022 | Head of Philosophy Department Associate Professor in Philosophy Elected to Fellowship April 26, 2021 |
| 2016 - 2020 | Ussher Assistant Professor in Berkeley Studies (Early Modern Philosophy) |
| 2014 - 2016 | Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow |
| 2021 | Professional Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice, Trinity College Dublin |
| 2014 | PhD, Philosophy, University of Southern California
Dissertation: Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World Supervisor: James Van Cleve |
| 2007 | BA, Philosophy and Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Honors Thesis: "The Semantics of Sense Perception in Berkeley" Supervisor: Karen Detlefsen |
| 2007 | BAS, Computer Science, University of Pennsylvania |
Is There a God? A Debate, with Graham Oppy, Little Debates about Big Questions (Routledge, 2022)
Media Coverage: Joe Humphreys, "Is there a God? Why is there something instead of nothing? This article explains it all," The Irish Times, December 2, 2021; The Moncrieff Show, NewsTalk FM Radio, December 23, 2021
Reviews: Jeanine Diller, The Philosophical Quarterly 73 (2023): 829-831; M.J.A. Shaw, NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 77 (2023): 134-136; Gaven Kerr, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 97 (2023): 144-146; Enric Fernandez-Gel, Anuraio Filosofico 56 (2023): 197-200
Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Reviews: Melissa Frankel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, December 14, 2017; Eugene Calahan, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (2019): 218-221
Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley, with Takaharu Oda, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, with Tyron Goldschmidt (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Reviews: Adam P. Taylor, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 17, 2018; Craig Warmke, Faith and Philosophy 36 (2019): 271-275; Nevin Climenhaga, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, forthcoming, doi: 10.1007/s11153-024-09922-4
"Metaphysical Rationalism Requires Grounding Indeterminism," Journal of the American Philosophical Association, forthcoming
"Foundational Grounding and Four Sources of Contingency," Faith and Philosophy, forthcoming
"Anthony Collins's Non-Vindication of the Divine Attributes," Journal of Theological Studies 75 (2024): 463-475
"Astell and Masham on Epistemic Authority and Women's Individual Judgment in Religion," Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 11 (2023): 197-226
"Foundational Grounding and Creaturely Freedom," Mind 131 (2022): 1108-1130
"Berkeley on Religious Truths: A Reply to Keota Fields," British Journal for the History of Philosophy 30 (2022): 1121-1131
"Thinking with the Cartesians and Speaking with the Vulgar: Extrinsic Denomination in the Philosophy of Antoine Arnauld," Journal of the History of Philosophy 60 (2022): 227-252
"God's Perfect Will: Remarks on Johnston and O'Connor," invited symposium contribution, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 10 (2022): 248-254
"God's Impossible Options," Faith and Philosophy 38 (2021): 185-204
"Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy," Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (2021): 252-280
"Are We Free to Break the Laws of Providence?" Faith and Philosophy 37 (2020): 158-180
"Intentionality, Belief, and the Logical Problem of Evil," Religious Studies 56 (2020): 419-435
"William King on Free Will," Philosophers' Imprint 19, no. 5 (2019): 1-17
"What Descartes Doubted, Berkeley Denied, and Kant Endorsed," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review 58 (2019): 31-63
"Locke, Arnauld, and Abstract Ideas," British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (2019): 75-94
"How Berkeley's Gardener Knows his Cherry Tree," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 98 (2017): 553-576
"Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language," History of Philosophy Quarterly 34 (2017): 231-250
"Foundational Grounding and the Argument from Contingency," Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 8 (2017): 245-268. Winner of the 2016 Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Religion.
"Counterpossible Dependence and the Efficacy of the Divine Will," Faith and Philosophy 34 (2017): 3-16
"Leibniz and the Veridicality of Body Perceptions," Philosophers' Imprint 16, no. 5 (2016): 1-17
"Arnauld's Verbal Distinction between Ideas and Perceptions," History and Philosophy of Logic 37 (2016): 375-390
"Counteressential Conditionals," Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 5 (2016): 73-81
"Berkeley's Lockean Religious Epistemology," Journal of the History of Ideas 75 (2014): 417-438
"Understanding Omnipotence," with Alexander R. Pruss, Religious Studies 48 (2012): 403-414
"Thomas Reid on Character and Freedom," History of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (2012): 159-176
"The Semantics of Sense Perception in Berkeley," Religious Studies 44 (2008): 249-268
"Language, Reference, and Signification in Locke," in The Oxford Handbook of Locke, ed. Patrick Connolly (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
"Early Modern Critiques of Materialism and Atheism: Cudworth, Clarke, and Berkeley," in The History and Philosophy of Materialism, ed. John Symons and Charles T. Wolfe (Routledge, forthcoming)
"The Epistemology of Testimony: Locke and His Critics" in The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy, ed. Stephen Howard and Jack Stetter (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming)
"Why Not? God" in The Ontology of Divinity, ed. Miroslaw Szatkowski (De Gruyter, 2024)
"Berkeley's Theory of Language" in The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley, ed. Samuel Rickless (Oxford University Press, 2022)
"Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge" in Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley, ed. Kenneth L. Pearce and Takaharu Oda, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
"Infinite Power and Finite Powers" in The Infinity of God: New Perspectives in Theology and Philosophy, ed. Benedikt Paul Göcke and Christian Tapp (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019)
"Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues" in Berkeley's Three Dialogues: New Essays, ed. Stefan Storrie (Oxford University Press, 2018)
"Mereological Idealism" in Idealism: New Essays in Metaphysics, ed. Tyron Goldschmidt and Kenneth L. Pearce (Oxford University Press, 2017)
"George Berkeley (1685-1753)" (with Fiona Newell) in Pioneers of Irish Neuroscience: A History of Brain Science in Ireland, ed. Aine Kelly, Zsuzanna Zarka, and Richard Roche (Lettertec, 2022)
"Newton and Berkeley" in Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and Sciences, ed. Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe (Springer, 2022)
"George Berkeley" (with Daniel Flage) in Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy, ed. Duncan Pritchard (Oxford University Press, 2019)
"Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion" in The Bloomsbury Companion to Berkeley, ed. Richard Brook and Bertil Belfrage (Bloomsbury, 2017)
"Port-Royal" in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online, ed. Tim Crane (Routledge, 2015)
"Omnipotence" in The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. James Fieser and Bradley Dowden (November 8, 2011)
"Seeing is Not Perceiving," iai news, Institute for Arts and Ideas (July 15, 2022), https://iai.tv/articles/seeing-is-not-perceiving-auid-2185?_auid=2020
"Berkeley's Manuscript Introduction: A piece of philosophical history from the Library of Trinity College Dublin's manuscript collection," TCD Library digital exhibition (Google Arts and Culture, 2018): http://www.tcd.ie/library/exhibitions/berkeley-manuscript/
"Deism," The Special Divine Action Project, Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion, Oxford University (Bodleian Library, 2017): https://sda.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sda/#!/themes/preview?id=211
Review of The Parmenidean Ascent, by Michael Della Rocca, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102 (2024): 535
Review of George Berkeley: A Philosophical Life, by Tom E. Jones, Books Ireland (August 26, 2021)
Review of Necessary Existence, by Alexander R. Pruss and Joshua L. Rasmussen, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 93 (2019): 763-767
Review of Idealism and Christian Theology, ed. Joshua R. Farris and S. Mark Hamilton, Faith and Philosophy 34 (2017): 365-369
Review of The Everlasting Check: Hume on Miracles, by Alexander George, Journal of the History of Philosophy 54 (2016): 680-681
Review of The Puzzle of Existence: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?, ed. Tyron Goldschmidt, Faith and Philosophy 31 (2014): 341-344
Philosophy of Religion: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments, under contract, Routledge. Expected publication 2028.
"George Berkeley on Obedience to Lawful Authority," invited contribution to Violence, Virtue, and Reason: Irish Christian Perspectives on Law, ed. David McIlroy (Routledge)
"Berkeley's Rejection of Stevensonian Emotivism," invited contribution to a volume on the philosophy of C. L. Stevenson (title TBD), ed. Rachel Handley (Palgrave)
"Maimonideanism, Clandestine Atheism, and Early Modern Philosophy," European Society for Early Modern Philosophy, Copenhagen, Denmark (September 14, 2022)
"Monistic Metaphysical Rationalism Requires Grounding Indeterminism," American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference, Chicago, IL (February 25, 2022)
"Berkeley on Mysteries," Rutgers Center for Philosophy of Religion, New Brunswick, NJ (November 5, 2021)
"Indeterministically Grounding the Molinist Conditionals," Princeton Project in Philosophy of Religion Incubator Conference, online (May 18, 2021)
"Does Berkeley Anthropomorphize God?" Keynote Address to the Ohio State Berkeley Conference. Originally scheduled to take place in Columbus, Ohio, May 1, 2020. Conducted by videoconference June 6, 2020 due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Language and the Structure of Berkeley's World, Author-Meets-Critic Session, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting (main program), Chicago, Illinois (February 26, 2020)
Critics: Margaret Atherton, Kenneth Winkler, Keota Fields
"Antoine Arnauld on Extrinsic Denominations and Empty Names," Chicago Modern Philosophy Round Table, University of Illinois Chicago (February 7, 2020)
"John Toland's Extreme Epistemic Egoism," American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting (main program), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (January 9, 2020)
"Divine Providence and Human Freedom in Leibniz's Theodicy," The Free Will Questions at the Turn of the 18th Century, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (September 26, 2019)
"Peter Browne on the Metaphysics of Knowledge," Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley, Trinity College Dublin (April 6, 2019)
"Berkeley's Theory of Language," Berkeley Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (October 20, 2018)
"Knowing by Another's Understanding: An Early Modern Debate about Knowledge, Testimony, and Faith," University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign Philosophy Colloquium (April 27, 2018)
"The Monster of Malmesbury and the Bishop of Cloyne: Hobbist Origins of Berkeley's Theories of Meaning and Inference"
Irish Philosophical Club Annual Conference, Drogheda, Ireland (February 17, 2018)
Berkeley's Philosophy after the Principles and the Three Dialogues, Torun, Poland (October 25, 2017)
"Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy," University College Dublin Philosophy Colloquium (October 12, 2017)
"Berkeley's Immaterialist Monetary Policy," Bishop Berkeley's Querist in Context, Galway, Ireland (May 20, 2017)
"William King on Free Will," Cross-Ireland Exchange in Analytic Philosophy, Belfast, Northern Ireland (March 23, 2017)
"Why Theists Need Primary Causation," Aquinas and Analytic Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland (January 28, 2017)
"Berkeley's Argument for Immaterialism in the Principles," Second Irish Early Modern Philosophy Conference, Dublin, Ireland (December 9, 2016)
"Foundational Grounding and the Argument from Contingency," University of St. Olaf Philosophy Department Colloquium, Northfield, Minnesota (September 19, 2016)
"Berkeley's Theory of Quasi-Entities," International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 24, 2016)
"Modernity and the History of Philosophy (1613-1779)," contribution to symposium, "What Drives Philosophical Progress?" organized by Kirsten Walsh, International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Minneapolis, Minnesota (June 23, 2016)
"Counteressential Conditionals," American Philosophical Associaton Central Division Meeting (Main Program), Chicago, Illinois (March 3, 2016)
"Leibniz and the Veridicality of Body Perceptions," Eighth Annual Leibniz Society of North America Conference, Tampa, Florida (October 31, 2014)
"Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues," Berkeley Conference, Dublin, Ireland (April 4, 2014)
"How Berkeley's Gardener Knows his Cherry Tree," International Berkeley Conference: The 300th Anniversary of the Publication of Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, Krakow, Poland (August 21, 2013)
"Infinite Power and Finite Powers" (invited), The Infinity of God: Scientific, Theological, and Philosophical Approaches, Bochum, Germany (August 10, 2013)
"Leibniz on Phenomenalism, Mechanism, and the Great Chain of Being," International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Halifax, NS (June 22, 2012)
"Divine Language, Unperceived Objects, and Berkeley's Response to Skepticism," International Berkeley Society Group Session, American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, DC (December 28, 2011)
"Berkeley's Lockean Religious Epistemology," International Berkeley Conference, Zurich, Switzerland (June 23, 2011)
"A Leibnizian Theory of Miracles"
Society of Christian Philosophers Pacific and Mountain Region Conference, Newberg, OR (March 4, 2011)
Southern California Philosophy Conference, Pomona, CA (November 6, 2010)
Interdisciplinary and International Graduate Conference in French and Francophone Studies, Santa Barbara, CA, (May 14, 2010)
"In Defense of Ignorant Assertions," Mountain-Plains Philosophy Conference, Washington, PA (October 16, 2010)
"Can Berkeley's God Raise the Same Body, Transformed?" Society of Christian Philosophers Pacific Division Conference, Riverside, CA, (October 31, 2008)
Organizer, Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley, Dublin, Ireland. External sponsorship: Royal Institute of Philosophy and Mind Association (April 5-6, 2019)
Panelist, "Teaching with Alternative Narratives," Teaching Early Modern Philosophy of Science (TEMPOS), University of Bristol, UK (March 27, 2019)
Comments on Patricia Sheridan, "Agency, Virtue, and Fitness in the Moral Philosophies of Damaris Masham and Catharine Trotter Cockburn," Agency in Early Modern Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland (September 28, 2018)
Session chair, "Berkeley's Neglected Works in Focus," Berkeley's Philosophy after the Principles and the Three Dialogues, Torun, Poland (October 26, 2017)
Comments on David Hilbert, "Berkeley's Political Metaphysics," American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (Main Program), San Francisco, CA (March 31, 2016)
Invited Participant, Webinar on Berkeley's Argument for Idealism by Samuel Rickless, hosted by the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario (December 9, 2015)
Comments on Linda Zagzebski, "Omnisubjectivity and Christian Doctrine," Classical Theism Workshop, St. Paul, MN (August 1, 2015)
Participant, St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, St. Paul, MN (June 16 - July 1, 2015)
Session chair for Irem Kurstal Steen, "Ordinary Objects for Plenitude Lovers," The Third California Metaphysics Conference: Ordinary Objects, Los Angeles, CA (January 17, 2014)
Comments on Daniel M. Johnson, "Reidian Internalism," American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting (Main Program), San Diego, CA (April 21, 2011)
| 2021 | Fellow of Trinity College Dublin |
| 2018 | Royal Institute of Philosophy Departmental Conference Grant (for Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley) |
| 2018 | Mind Association Major Conference Grant (for Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley) |
| 2016 | Sanders Prize in Philosophy of Religion (for "Foundational Grounding and the Argument from Contingency") |
Early Modern Philosophy of Language (TCD: Hilary Term 2017, 2018, and 2022; Michaelmas Term 2018 and 2019)
Berkeley and Idealism (TCD: Hilary Term 2017, 2019, and 2021 [online due to COVID19])
Modern Philosophy (JMU: Spring 2023)
Philosophy of Religion (TCD: Michaelmas Term 2020 [online due to COVID19] and 2021)
Early Modern Philosophy of Language (TCD: Hilary Term 2017, 2018, and 2022; Michaelmas Term 2018 and 2019)
Philosophy of Mind (TCD: Michaelmas Term 2016 and 2017)
Science Fiction and Philosophy (Interdisciplinary Honors College Seminar; Valparaiso: Fall 2015)
Philosophy of Religion (Pepperdine: Fall 2012)
Ethics (Pepperdine: Fall 2012)
Philosophy and Science Fiction (JMU: Fall 2023)
History of Western Philosophy: Ancient (TCD: Michaelmas Term 2020 [online due to COVID19])
History of Western Philosophy: 17th Century (TCD: Hilary Term 2018, 2019, 2021 [online due to COVID19], and 2022)
History of Western Philosophy: 18th Century (TCD: Hilary Term 2018 and 2022)
Central Problems in Philosophy: Philosophy of Religion (TCD: Michaelmas Term 2017, 2018, and 2019)
Topics in Philosophy: God and Freedom (TCD: Michaelmas Term 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019)
Great Texts: Berkeley's Principles (TCD: Michaelmas Term 2016, 2017, and 2019)
History of Philosophy: Rationalists and Empiricists (TCD: Hilary Term 2017)
The Good Life (Valparaiso: Spring 2016)
Texts and Contexts II (Honors College Great Books Seminar; Valparaiso: Spring 2016)
Early Modern Philosophy (Valparaiso: Spring 2015)
Elementary Logic/Critical Thinking (Valparaiso: Fall 2014 and Spring 2015)
| 2018 - 2022 | Dissertation Supervisor, Takaharu Oda, A Pragmatic Bishop: Berkeley's Metaphysics of Causation in De Motu. Viva passed August 9, 2022. |
| 2016 - 2020 | Dissertation Supervisor, Peter West, Removing Rubbish and Laying Foundations: Berkeley's Solution to the Sceptical Problem. Viva passed March 5, 2020. |
| 2016 - 2018 | Dissertation Supervisor, Laura Kennedy, Seeking Spinoza: The Spinozistic Origins of Early Psychological Theory in Wundt, James and Freud. Viva passed September 3, 2018. |
| 2021 | Thesis Supervisor. Topic: panpsychism. |
| 2019 | Thesis Supervisor. Topic: early modern philosophy. |
| 2018 | Thesis Supervisor. Topic: The Principle of Sufficient Reason. |
| Spring 2023 | First Year Research Experience Supervisor, 1 student. |
| 2021 - 2022 | BA Thesis Supervisor, 1 student. Topic: determinism and moral responsibility |
| 2020 - 2021 | BA Thesis Co-Supervisor, 1 student. Topic: philosophy of race |
| Summer 2018 | Project Mentor, Laidlaw Undergraduate Research and Leadership Program, 1 student. Topic: Animal and population ethics. |
| 2017 - 2018 | BA Thesis Supervision, 5 students. Topics: early modern philosophy; metaphysics; philosophy of mind; philosophy of artificial intelligence. |
| Spring 2016 | Independent Study, 1 student. Advanced History of Philosophy: The Principle of Sufficient Reason. |
| Fall 2015 | Independent study, 2 students. Advanced Logic. |
| Michaelmas Term 2020 | Adapting Our Teaching for Online Learning, TCD Centre for Academic Practice and eLearning. Coursework toward Professional Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice. |
| Hilary Term 2019 | Assessment and Feedback in Higher Education, TCD Centre for Academic Practice and eLearning. Coursework toward Professional Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice. |
| Hilary Term 2018 | Reflecting on and Evaluating your Teaching in Higher Education, TCD Centre for Academic Practice and eLearning. Coursework toward Professional Special Purpose Certificate in Academic Practice. |
Q&A on Is There a God? A Debate, Huntington University, Indidana (February 18, 2022, via Zoom)
"The Foundations of Christian Belief," Dublin University Theological Society (October 4, 2021, via Zoom)
"Xunzi," Great Philosophers Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (September 14, 2021, via Zoom)
"Do Miracles Occur?" Big Questions in Philosophy Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (February 2, 2021, via Zoom)
"Molyneux's Problem in the History of Philosophy," William Molyneux of Dublin (1656-1698): Life, Work, Legacy, St Audoen's Church, Dublin (November 23, 2019)
"Gottfried Leibniz," Great Philosophers Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (October 8, 2019)
"Can God Be Free?" Big Questions in Philosophy Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (February 19, 2019)
"Mary Astell," Great Philosophers Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (October 2, 2018)
"Can God Create a Stone Too Heavy for God to Lift?" Big Questions in Philosophy Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (February 6, 2018)
"Religious Language according to Three Irish Bishops," Slattery Lecture Series, Carlow College (November 15, 2017)
"Margaret Cavendish," Great Philosophers Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (October 17, 2017)
"The Life and Ideas of Bishop George Berkeley," Public lecture in celeberation of the 50th anniversary of the Berkeley Library, Trinity College Dublin (March 29, 2017)
"Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing?" Big Questions in Philosophy Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (February 14, 2017)
"George Berkeley," Great Philosophers Extramural Lecture Series, Trinity College Dublin (October 25, 2016)
"Mereological Idealism," PHIL 320: Metaphysics (Instructor: Sandra Visser), Valparaiso University, via Skype (September 30, 2016)
"A Discussion on Omnipotence and Stones," PHIL 112: Philosophy of Religion (Instrucor: C. Daniel Dolson), University of California, Santa Barbara, via Skype (February 12, 2014)
Introductory lecture to Freud's Last Session, USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative (January 17, 2013)
"Leibniz, Newton, and Laplace on God and Physics," USC Undergraduate Philosophy Club (April 8, 2011)
"Contingency, Grounding, and God w/ Dr. Kenneth Pearce," Philosophy for the People YouTube Channel (September 20, 2024)
"Kenny Pearce on Arguments and How to Have Them Productively," Real Atheology Podcast (July 18, 2023)
"Is There a God?" interview for With Good Reason, Virginia Public Radio (May 5, 2023)
"Do We Live in God's Mind or in God's Novel? (Hassidic vs. Berkeleyan Idealism)," conversation with Samuel Lebens on Parker's Pensees Podcast/YouTube Channel (March 21, 2023)
"Kenny Pearce on Protestantism, Catholicism, and Apologetics," Real Atheology Podcast (March 10, 2023)
"Kenny Pearce on Fruitful Dialogue and the History of Philosophy," Real Atheology Podcast (February 24, 2023)
"Contingency Arguments," Adherent Apologetics YouTube Channel (February 4, 2023)
"Classical Theism, The Argument from Contingency, and Avoiding Necessitarianism," Philosophy for the People Podcast and YouTube Channel (January 16, 2023)
"Contingency Arguments," with Joshua Rasmussen, Capturing Christianity YouTube Channel (January 13, 2023)
"Logical Problems of Evil," TJump YouTube Channel (December 14, 2022)
"Contingency = Good Evidence for God?" Capturing Christianity YouTubeChannel (November 3, 2022)
"Book Discussion - Is There a God?," Samuel Jonathan YouTube Channel (October 8, 2022)
"Is There A God? A Debate," Dustin Crummett YouTube Channel (August 20, 2022)
"God is the Author of Reality & You're One of His Characters," Parker's Pensees Podcast (August 7, 2022)
"Arguing About Gods vs Oppy," Digital Gnosis YouTube Channel (July 27, 2022)
"Philosopher Interview: Dr. Kenneth Pearce on 'Is There a God? A Debate With Dr. Graham Oppy'," Furthering Christendom YouTube Channel (April 20, 2022)
"Evidence for God?" TJump YouTube Channel (April 7, 2022)
"A Cutting Edge Cosmological Argument," The Analytic Christian YouTube Channel (March 10, 2022)
How to Make a Good Religious Argument," Philosophy for the People YouTube Channel and The Pat Flynn Show Podcast (February 7, 2022)
"Is There a God?" Classical Theism Podcast (December 31, 2021)
"Is There a God?" The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk FM Radio (December 23, 2021)
"Arguing for God & Examining Idealism," Adherent Apologetics Podcast/YouTube Channel (December 15, 2021)
Panelist, "If a higher power didn't exist, would humans create one?" Leap of Faith, RTE Radio 1 (December 10, 2021)
Interview for "Is there a God? Why is there something instead of nothing? This article explains it all," by Joe Humphreys, The Irish Times (December 2, 2021)
Faculty in Focus Interview, Trinity Long Room Hub (November 8, 2021, via Zoom)
Interview for "Trinity College Dublin mulls bringing George Berkeley to book over slave links," by Emma Shortall, The Sunday Times (November 22, 2020)
Panelist, "The Age of Uncertainty," Behind the Headlines, Trinity Long Room Hub (October 6, 2020, via Zoom)
"Do You Live in a Simulation?" Brain in a Vat Podcast/YouTube Channel (June 21, 2020)
Panelist, "Sir Isaac Newton," Talking History, Newstalk FM Radio (October 7, 2018)
| 2022 - Present | Academic Unit Head for Philosophy and Religion (JMU) |
| 2020 - 2022 | Head of Philosophy Department (TCD) |
| 2020 - 2021 | Director, MPhil in Philosophy |
| 2018 - 2019 | Coordinator, MPhil in Philosophy |
| Hilary Term 2019 | Departmental Subcommittee on Innovation in Assessment |
| 2018 - 2019 | Program Development for Future TCD/Columbia Dual BA in Philosophy |
| 2017 - 2019 | Coordinator for Postgraduate Development |
| Hilary Term 2018 | Program Convener, Single Honours Philosophy |
| 2016 - 2022 | Coordinator for Web Page and Teaching Technology |
| 2016 - 2018 | Director of Research |
Reader for Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, and Routledge
Referee for Journal of Philosophy, Philosophers' Imprint, Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy Quarterly, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, American Philosophical Quarterly, Religious Studies, Erkenntnis, Archiv Für Geschichte der Philosophie, Journal of Modern Philosophy, Journal of Analytic Theology, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Sophia, Philosophical Papers, Journal of Philosophical Research, History and Philosophy of Logic, Hermathena, Berkeley Studies, Dialectica, Society and Politics, Journal of Polish Philosophy, Eighteenth Century Ireland, Annals of Philosophy, Diametros, and Forum Philosophicum, Epoche
Contributor, The Prosblogion philosophy of religion blog (2010 - 2018)
Organizer, Prosblogion Virtual Colloquium, 2016 - 2017
PhilPapers.org category editor for "George Berkeley;" "Berkeley: Metaphysics," with subcategories; "Berkeley: Philosophy of Language;" "Berkeley: Philosophy of Religion," with subcategories; "Divine Attributes;" and "Divine Omnipotence"