Ken Perszyk

Senior Lecturer and Head of School

BA MA Marquette
PhD VUW

Profile

I arrived at VUW from the States in 1985 to do my PhD, and I've been lecturing here since 1988. I'm a frequent visitor at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame, where I was a Fellow in 1999. I'm currently Head of School, Deputy Editor and Book Review Editor for the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Research Areas

Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics

Current Teaching

PHIL 104: Argument and Analysis
PHIL 105: The Big Questions
PHIL 224/324: Philosophy of Religion
PHIL/POLS 361/PHIL 461: Selected Topic: Freedom and Responsibility

Selected Publications

Book

Nonexistent Objects: Meinong and Contemporary Philosophy, vol 49 of Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1993, pp. xix + 303.

Articles

'Molinism and the Consequence Argument: A Challenge', Faith and Philosophy 20(2003): 131-151.

'Molinism and Compatibilism', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 48(2000): 11-33.

'Stump's Theodicy of Redemptive Suffering and Molinism', Religious Studies 35 (1999): 191-211.

'Compatibilism and the Free Will Defence: A Reply to Bishop', Australasian Journal of Philosophy 77 (1999): 92-105.

'An Anti-Molinist Argument', Philosophical Studies 90 (1998): 215-235.

'Molinism and Theodicy', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 44 (1998): 163-184.

'Free Will Defence with and Without Molinism', International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 43 (1998): 29-64.

'Against Extended Modal Realism', Journal of Philosophical Logic 22(1993): 205-214.

'What's Wrong with Impossible Objects?' Philosophical Papers 18(1989): 241-251.

'The Ontology of the "Tractatus"', Philosophia 18 (1988): 39-59.

'"Tractatus" 5:54-5:5422', Philosophia 17 (1987): 111-126.