Jennifer "Jenny" Keefe

Teaching Interests

Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy, Epistemology and Metaphysics

Research Interests

History of Philosophy (especially 19th Century Scottish Philosophy and British Idealism).

Consulting Interests

Selected Publications

2019: 'The Scottish Idealists: Absolute Idealism and Personal Idealism', Journal of Scottish Philosophy

2019: 'James Frederick Ferrier', Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

2016: 'The British Idealists: Green, Bradley and Caird', in The Nineteenth Century Reader, edited by Benjamin Crowe (Routledge)

2016: 'The Early British Idealists and the Metaphysics of the Self', in The British Idealists and the Concept of the Self, edited by W.J Mander and Stamatoula Panagakou (Palgrave-Macmillan)

2015: 'James Frederick Ferrier: The Return of Idealism and the Rejection of Common Sense', in Scottish Philosophy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Gordon Graham (Oxford University Press)

2014: 'J.F. Ferrier’s Metaphysics', Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century edited by William Mander, (Oxford University Press)

2011: J.F. Ferrier: Selected Philosophical Writings, Editor, Library of Scottish Philosophy, (Imprint Academic)

2007: 'Ferrier, Common Sense and Consciousness ', Journal of Scottish Philosophy

2007: 'James Ferrier and the Theory of Ignorance' , The Monist

2007: 'The Return to Berkeley' , British Journal for the History of Philosophy