John A. Keller

Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Niagara University
Visiting Joseph S. Hogan Chair
Department of Philosophy
Saint Joseph's University

Metaphysics

• Paraphrase and the Symmetry Objection, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(2), 2017.
• Paraphrase, Semantics, and Ontology, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, v.9; Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman eds., 2015. (draft)

Epistemology

• Philosophical Individualism, in Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from van Inwagen, John A. Keller ed., Oxford University Press, 2017. (draft)
• Introduction to Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from van Inwagen, John A. Keller ed., Oxford University Press, 2017.
• On Knockdown Arguments, Erkenntnis 80(6), 2015. (draft)

Philosophy of Religion

• Paraphrase and the Doctrine of the Trinity (with Joseph Jedwab), Faith and Philosophy (forthcoming).
• Theological Anti-Realism, The Journal of Analytic Theology 2, 2014.

Philosophy of Language

• Compositionality and Structured Propositions (with Lorraine Juliano Keller), in Thought 2(4), 2013. (draft)
• What Can We Learn About Language From Thinking About Philosophy?, in On Language: Analytic, Continental, and Historical Perspectives, Jon Burmeister and Mark Sentency eds., Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Books

• Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from van Inwagen, John A. Keller ed., Oxford University Press, 2017.

Dissertation

• Telling the Whole Truth: The Role of Paraphrase in Philosophical Inquiry, University of Notre Dame, 2010. (available upon request)

Teaching

• Death & Dying, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
• Philosophy of Human Nature, Spring 2019
• Logic, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
• Metaphysics, Spring 2018, Spring 2015, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2009
• Ethics, Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Spring 2011, Fall 2010, Spring 2010, Fall 2009
• Advanced Topics: The Rationality of Religious Belief, Spring 2015 (IS)
• Advanced Topics: Intermediate Logic, Spring 2014 (IS)
• Advanced Topics: Apathy, Spring 2013 (IS)
• Contemporary Philosophy: Anscombe and Geach, Fall 2012
• Philosophy of Language, Spring 2012, Spring 2010
• Advanced Topics in Philosophy of Religion: The Trinity and Incarnation, Spring 2012 (IS)
• Self and World, Spring 2009
• Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2008
• Moral Problems, Spring 2008

Contact

Department of Philosophy
252 Barbelin
Saint Joseph's University
5600 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131