I am a philosopher at the Ethics Institute at Utrecht University in the Netherlands with interests in feminist philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and the philosophy of language. What unites my research in all these different areas is a question about the possibility and the specific means of social critique. I have published on objectification, testimony, and metaphor. Currently, I am thinking about the concept of utopia.
Before coming to Utrecht, I held a Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Cambridge. Before that, I was a student at Newnham College in Cambridge for many years. I also spent some time at Humboldt Universität, Berlin, CUNY, New York, and ETH in Zürich.
You can contact me at p.m.keller@uu.nl.
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
- (2025) "Distracting Metaphors", Ethics, 135, 3: pp. 458-488.
- (2024) "Rahel Levin Varnhagen" In The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, edited by Kristin Gjesdal and Dalia Nassar.
- (2024) "Testimony by Presupposition," Erkenntnis, Vol. 89, pp 2149–2167. (Open Access)
- (2021) "Objectified Women and Fetishized Objects", Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy , Vol. 19 No. 1, pp. 27-55. (Open Access)
- (2021) Review of Berit Brogaard's Hatred , Ethics , 132, 1: pp. 232–238.
PUBLIC WRITING
Articles in DIE ZEIT, Times Literary Supplement, taz and Der Freitag.