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Kerr

Dr Gaven Kerr

BA (QUB), MPhil (QUB), PhD (QUB).

Teaching Assistant

Contact Details:
Room 19.205
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3992
Email: gkerr07@qub.ac.uk
Office Hours: Fridays 9am – 10am & 2pm – 4pm 

Teaching and Research

I convene the Scholastic Metaphysics module in the school and in the past have taught on various modules including approaches to philosophy, human nature, history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophical theology, medieval philosophy. My research interests are in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical logic. Historically speaking I situate myself within the scholastic tradition of philosophy and I work on drawing conceptual connections between important scholastic thinkers (particularly Aquinas) and other traditions, e.g. ancient Greek thought (Plato and Aristotle), modern philosophy (especially Kant), and contemporary analytic philosophy.

Publications:

International Publications:   

  • ‘Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: A Hypothesis?’ International Philosophical Quarterly (2011) 51:2.
  • ‘Ontological Commitment and Thomistic Realism’, Thomas Aquinas: Teacher and Scholar (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012) editors James McEvoy, Michael Dunne, and Julia Hynes.
  • ‘A Thomistic Metaphysics of Creation’. Religious Studies (2012) vol. 48, issue 3.
  • ‘Aquinas’s Argument for the Existence of God in De Ente et Essentia Cap. IV: An Interpretation and defence’. Journal of Philosophical Research (2012) 37.
  • ‘Essentially Ordered Series Reconsidered’. Forthcoming in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Autumn 2012.
  • ‘McDowell and Aquinas: Philosophical Convergences’. Forthcoming in The Thomist.

 Irish Interest:  

  • ‘The Meaning of Ens Commune in the Thought of St Thomas Aquinas’. The Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2008.
  • ‘What does it mean for Being to be a Condition for Thought? The Case of Thomas Aquinas’. The Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2009.
  • ‘Russell, God and Existence’. The Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2010.
  • ‘A Thomistic Response to the Problem of Evil’. The Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2011. 

Undergraduate Interest:

Editorial Work:

  • I am currently the reviews editor for the Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society.