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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: Mondays 11-1 pm 

Teaching Areas:

In semester one I will be lecturing on the Scholastic Metaphysics module (PHL3040), and I will also be tutoring on the Approaches to Philosophy module (PHL1001). In the past I have lectured on the History of Philosophy module (PHL2016) and tutored on a number of modules, such as Human Nature, Philosophical Theology, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophy of Mind.

Research Interests:

My main research interests are in the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical logic. I am primarily interested in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and several other important scholastic thinkers and the convergence of their thought with that of important thinkers in the analytic tradition. I have just completed my PhD (The Metaphysics of St Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Thomistic Realism) under the supervision of Rev. Prof. James McEvoy and Dr Joseph Diekemper.

Publications:

International:

• ‘Kant’s Transcendental Idealism: A Hypothesis?’ International Philosophical Quarterly (2011) 51:2.
• ‘Ontological Commitment and Thomistic Realism’ in Thomas Aquinas: Ideas, Probings and Questionings (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011) editors James McEvoy, Michael Dunne, and Julia Hynes.
• ‘Aquinas’s Argument for the Existence of God in De Ente et Essentia Cap. IV: An Interpretation and defence’ Forthcoming in Journal of Philosophical Research (2012).
• 'A Thomistic Metaphysics of Creation'. Forthcoming in Religious Studies?.

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'. Forthcoming in The Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society.?

Undergraduate Interest:

•  ‘Aquinas: Metaphysics’, entry for the Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy.