Simon Keller

Associate Professor
BA BSc Monash
MA PhD Princeton

Profile

Simon Keller works on various topics in ethics, political philosophy and metaphysics. He lived in Wellington as a child, and has since lived in Melbourne, then the US, then Melbourne again, and now back to Wellington. He spent five years working in the Philosophy department at Boston University and two years at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at University of Melbourne. During his time in Boston, he also held a faculty fellowship at the Center for Ethics at Harvard University and taught in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a fan of New Zealand’s runners, Australia’s cricketers, and whoever wins the rugby.

Research Areas

Ethics, Political Philosophy, Metaphysics.

Current Teaching

Philosophy 262: Moral and Political Philosophy.
Philosophy 404: Value Theory.

Selected Publications

Books

The Limits of Loyalty (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Articles

‘Welfare as Success,’ forthcoming in Nous.
‘Virtue Ethics is Self-Effacing,’ Australasian Journal of Philosophy 85:2 (2007): 221-232.
‘Four Theories of Filial Duty’, Philosophical Quarterly 56:223 (2006): 254-274.
‘Patriotism as Bad Faith’, Ethics 115:3 (2005): 563-592.
‘Friendship and Belief’, Philosophical Papers 33:3 (2004): 329-351.
‘Welfare and the Achievement of Goals’, Philosophical Studies 121:1 (2004): 27-41.
‘Presentism and Truthmaking,’ in Dean Zimmerman (ed.) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Vol. I (Oxford University Press, 2004) pp. 83-104.
‘Expensive Tastes and Distributive Justice’, Social Theory and Practice 28:4 (2002): 529-552.