Cavanaugh Hall (CA) 340C
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
425 University Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Education
- PhD Purdue University
- MDiv Earlham School of Religion
- BA Taylor University
J. Gregory Keller
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
- Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
- Affiliated Faculty, Institute for European Studies at Indiana University (EURO)
Academic interests
- Ethics
- Contemporary social and political issues
- 20th-century thought
- Continental philosophy
- Philosophy of culture
- Philosophy of literature
Teaching
- Philosophy and Culture (Dialogue and the Other; Visions of Utopia) (PHIL P414)
- Topics in Philosophy (Ethics of Plato and Aristotle; Virtue Ethics) (PHIL 383)
- Twentieth-Century Philosophy (Critical Theory; Postmodernism) (PHIL P316)
- Seminar in the History of Philosophy (Aristotle) (PHIL P418)
- Ethics (PHIL P120)
Awards
- Received the Langsam-Oswalt Summer Fellowship, 2016
- Named to IUPUI 21 Club, academic year 2009-2010, for being identified by a freshman as an individual who has made a difference in his or her success at IUPUI
- Nominated in 2010 for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars’ (NSCS) Inspire Integrity Awards
- Named by a freshman student, fall of 2010, as the “one individual on the campus who has helped them be successful at IUPUI” and so listed by University College as part of the I-Care for IUPUI Students initiative
- Identified by 49 graduating students over eight years as having a “positive influence” on their undergraduate learning experience
- Gateway Scholar, $5,000 grant, summer institute, and year-long faculty learning group oriented toward transforming teaching and facilitating research in introductory college courses, 2005-2006
- Honors Summer Faculty Fellowship, $3,000 stipend, summer 2007, to develop a new honors course under the title “Image and Reality in Film and Life: A Philosophical Perspective.”
Publications
- “The moral thinking of Macbeth,” Philosophy and Literature
- “Agency implies weakness of will,” ProtoSociology: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research
- “Spirituality, economics, and education: A dialogic critique of ‘Spiritual Capital’,” with Robert J. Helfenbein, Nebula: A Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship
- “On perfect goodness,” Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics
- “Dialogue as moral paradigm: Paths toward intercultural transformation,” Policy Futures in Education.
- Other publications include “Socrates, dialogue, and us: Ignorance as learning paradigm,” with Deborah Biss Keller, in Epistemologies of Ignorance and Studies of Limits in Education, (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2011); "The practice of dialogue: Socrates in the Meno," in An Anthology of Philosophical Studies, Vol. IV, (Athens, Greece: Athens Institute for Education and Research, 2010); “Mutuality or monopoly: Reflections on the ethics of international curriculum work," in International Curriculum Work: The Challenges of Culture and Context(Charlotte, NC: Information Age Press, 2012).
Service
- Gateway to Graduation Coordinator, Philosophy Department, 2008-present
- Reviewer, Oxford University Press, 2008, 2010
- Reviewer, Philosophical Studies in Education, journal of the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society, spring 2010
- “Being Good at Work: The Practice of Ethics in the Public Interest”, Lecture on Ethics to AGA/ASMC Joint Professional Development Conference at the Garrison at Fort Benjamin Harrison, fall 2007.
