Kelli D. Potter

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Kelli D. Potter
Occupation Philosopher
Professor
Language English language
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Brigham Young University (Philosophy, B.A.)

Florida State University (Philosophy, M.A.)

University of Notre Dame (Philosophy, ABD, M.A.)

Kelli D. Potter is an American philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Utah Valley University. [1] [2] [3] Her areas of expertise include: philosophy of religion, Mormon studies, philosophy of gender, and philosophy of logic. [3] [4] Potter was a founding board member of the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology and founding editor of Element: The Journal for the Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology , serving from 2000 to 2002. [4] Potter also served on the editorial board of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought from 1999 to 2003. [4]

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As a trans woman, Potter has addressed injustices and theology related to the transgender community and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in her writing. [5]

Potter also works on the nature of religious disagreement within religious traditions, i.e., heterodoxy. She argues that the existence of heterodoxy in all major religious traditions implies that religious belief per se does not have definite cognitive content. [6]

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Potter has been published in numerous academic journals, websites, and essay collections. [4]

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  1. "Religious Studies Committee | Religious Studies | Religious Studies | Philosophy and Humanities". www.uvu.edu. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  2. "Faculty | Philosophy and Humanities | Utah Valley University". www.uvu.edu. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Profile | Directory | Utah Valley University". www.uvu.edu. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Kelli D Potter | Utah Valley University - Academia.edu". uvu.academia.edu. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  5. "New LDS Handbook Cements Anti-Trans Policy—And it Doesn't Make a Whole Lot of Sense". Religion Dispatches. February 24, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
  6. Potter, Kelli D. (Spring 2016). "Mormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy". Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought . 49 (1): 41–63. doi: 10.5406/dialjmormthou.49.1.0041 . S2CID   218046930.