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    Molinism: The Contemporary Debate.Ken Perszyk (ed.) - 2011 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Molinism promises the strongest account of God's providence consistent with our freedom. But is it a coherent view, and does it provide a satisfying account of divine providence? The essays in this volume examine the status, defensibility, and application of this recently revived doctrine, and anticipate the future direction of the debate.
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    God, Purpose, and Reality: A Euteleological Understanding of Theism.John Bishop & Ken Perszyk - 2023 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. Edited by Kenneth J. Perszyk.
    Euteleology is a metaphysics according to which reality is inherently purposive and the contingent Universe exists ultimately because reality’s overall telos, the supreme good, is realized within it. This book provides an exposition of euteleology and a defence of its coherence. The main aim is to establish that euteleological metaphysics provides a religiously adequate alternative to the ‘personal-omniGod’ understanding of theism prevalent amongst analytic philosophers. The quest for an alternative to understanding the God of the Abrahamic traditions as an omnipotent, (...)
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  3. Recent Work on Molinism.Ken Perszyk - 2013 - Philosophy Compass 8 (8):755-770.
    Molinism is named after Luis de Molina (1535–1600). Molina and his fellow Jesuits became entangled in a fierce debate over issues involving the doctrine of divine providence, which is a picture of how God runs the world. Molinism reemerged in the 1970s after Alvin Plantinga unwittingly assumed it in his Free Will Defense against the ‘Logical’ Argument from Evil. Molinism has been the subject of vigorous debate in analytic philosophy of religion ever since. The main aim of this essay is (...)
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  4. Molinist Conditionals.Edwin Mares & Ken Perszyk - 2011 - In Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 96--117.
     
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  5. The normatively relativised logical argument from evil.John Bishop & Ken Perszyk - 2011 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 70 (2):109-126.
    It is widely agreed that the ‘Logical’ Argument from Evil (LAFE) is bankrupt. We aim to rehabilitate the LAFE, in the form of what we call the Normatively Relativised Logical Argument from Evil (NRLAFE). There are many different versions of a NRLAFE. We aim to show that one version, what we call the ‘right relationship’ NRLAFE, poses a significant threat to personal-omniGod-theism—understood as requiring the belief that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly good person who has created our world—because it (...)
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  6. The Divine Attributes and Non-personal Conceptions of God.John Bishop & Ken Perszyk - 2017 - Topoi 36 (4):609-621.
    Analytical philosophers of religion widely assume that God is a person, albeit immaterial and of unique status, and the divine attributes are thus understood as attributes of this supreme personal being. Our main aim is to consider how traditional divine attributes may be understood on a non-personal conception of God. We propose that foundational theist claims make an all-of-Reality reference, yet retain God’s status as transcendent Creator. We flesh out this proposal by outlining a specific non-personal, monist and ‘naturalist’ conception (...)
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  7. Concepts of God and problems of evil.John Bishop & Ken Perszyk - 2016 - In Andrei A. Buckareff & Yujin Nagasawa (eds.), Alternative Concepts of God: Essays on the Metaphysics of the Divine. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
     
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  8. Divine Action beyond the Personal OmniGod.John Bishop & Ken Perszyk - 2014 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion 5:1-21.
  9. Molinism and compatibilism.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 2000 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 48 (1):11-33.
  10. Motivating the Search for Alternatives to Personal OmniGod Theism: The Case from Classical Theism.Ken Perszyk - 2018 - European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 10 (4):97-118.
    Analytic philosophers of religion typically take God to be ‘the personal omniGod’ – a person who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent, and who creates and sustains all else that exists. Analytic philosophers also tend to assume that the personal omniGod is the God of ‘classical’ theism. Arguably, this is a mistake. To be consistent, a classical theist or her supporter must deny that God is literally a person. They need not, however, deny the aptness of using personal language, or of (...)
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    An anti-molinist argument.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1998 - Philosophical Studies 90 (3):215-235.
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    Free will defence with and without molinism.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1998 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 43 (1):29-64.
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    Against extended modal realism.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1993 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 22 (2):205 - 214.
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    Molinism and theodicy.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1998 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 44 (3):163-184.
  15. The Paradoxes of Time Travel.Ken Perszyk & Nicholas J. J. Smith - unknown - In Ken Perszyk & Nicholas J. J. Smith (eds.), Public lecture at Te Papa (National Museum of New Zealand).
    Humans have long been fascinated by the idea of visiting the past and of seeing what the future will bring. Time travel has been one of the most popular themes of science fiction. Most people have seen the TV series ‘Dr Who’ or ‘Quantum Leap’ or ‘Star Trek’. You’ve probably seen one of the ‘Back to the Future’ or ‘Terminator’ movies, or ‘Twelve Monkeys’. Time travel narratives provide fascinating plots, which exercise our imaginations in ever so many ways. But is (...)
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  16. (1 other version)Compatibilism and the free will defence: A reply to Bishop.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1999 - Australasian Journal of Philosopy 77 (1):92-105.
    This paper 1) argues that libertarians are virtually as badly off as compatibilists in the face of the objection to the Free Will Defence that omnipotent God could have ensured that all free beings always but freely did right, and 2) explores the prospects for an "upgraded" Free Will Defense which takes freedom merely as a necessary condition for a further higher good which logically could not be achieved if God employed any of the available strategies--under both compatibilist and libertarian (...)
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    The nyāya and Russell on empty terms.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1984 - Philosophy East and West 34 (2):131-146.
    The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how the navya-Nyaya school of indian philosophy determines the truth or falsity of a sentence which contains an empty term, And to point out some similarities and differences between its method of analysis and truth-Value determinations of such sentences and that of bertrand russell.
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  18. Public lecture at Te Papa (National Museum of New Zealand).Ken Perszyk & Nicholas J. J. Smith - manuscript
     
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    I. The problem of Molinist conditionals.Edwin Mares & Ken Perszyk - 2011 - In Ken Perszyk (ed.), Molinism: The Contemporary Debate. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press. pp. 96.
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    What's wrong with impossible objects?Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1989 - Philosophical Papers 18 (3):241-251.
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    Critical studies.Kenneth J. Perszyk, Raphael Falk & David Shatz - 1987 - Philosophia 17 (3):355-364.
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    Negative entities and negative facts in navya-nyāya.KennethJ Perszyk - 1984 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 12 (3):265-275.
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    Tractatus 5.54–5.5422.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1987 - Philosophia 17 (2):111-126.
  24. Theological Determinism and Divine Providence.Ken Perszyk (ed.) - 2011 - Oxford University Press.
     
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    The Ontology of the Tractatus.Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1988 - Philosophia 18 (1):39-59.
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    ‘Virtue is not blue’: Navya-Nyāya and some Western views. [REVIEW]Kenneth J. Perszyk - 1983 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 11 (4):325-338.
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