John A. Keller

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

Metaphysics

• The Method of Paraphrase, in Anthony Fischer and Anna-Sofia Maurin (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Properties, Routledge, 2024. (draft)
• Paraphrase and the Symmetry Objection, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95(2), 2017. (draft)
• Paraphrase, Semantics, and Ontology, in Karen Bennett and Dean Zimmerman (eds.) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, v.9, 2015. (draft)

Epistemology

• Philosophical Individualism, in John A. Keller (ed.) Being, Freedom, and Method: Themes from van Inwagen, 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 Language

• Linguistic Instrumentalism (w/Lorraine Juliano Keller), forthcoming in Richard Gaskin (ed.) The Question of Linguistic Idealism, Oxford University Press. (draft)
• Does Compositionality Entail Complexity?, Philosopher's Imprint 22(24), 2022.
• Saying Nothing and Thinking Nothing (w/Lorraine Juliano Keller), in Sara Bernstein and Tryon Goldschmidt (eds.) Non-Being: New Essays on the Metaphysics of Non-Existence, Oxford University Press, 2021. (draft)
• Compositionality and Structured Propositions (w/Lorraine Juliano Keller), Thought 2(4), 2013. (draft)
• What Can We Learn About Language From Thinking About Philosophy?, On Language: Analytic, Continental, and Historical Perspectives, Jon Burmeister and Mark Sentency eds., Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

Philosophy of Religion

• Review of Jc Beall's The Contradictory Christ, Faith and Philosophy 39(3), 2022.
• Review of Elliot Sober's The Design Argument, Faith and Philosophy 37(2), 2020.
• Paraphrase and the Doctrine of the Trinity (w/Joseph Jedwab), in Faith and Philosophy 36(2), 2019.
• Theological Anti-Realism, The Journal of Analytic Theology 2, 2014.

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

• The Existence of God, Spring 2024
• Moral Foundations, Spring 2024, Fall 2023 Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021
• Logic, Fall 2023 Spring 2023, Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2014, Fall 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2011, Fall 2010
• Freedom and Determinism, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2021, Fall 2020
• Non-Physical Reality, Spring 2022
• Philosophy of Human Nature, Fall, 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019
• Intermediate Logic, Spring 2020, Spring 2014 (IS)
• Death & Dying, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Fall 2018, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
• 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: 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
Barbelin 261A
Saint Joseph's University
5600 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131