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Kelli D. Potter is an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at Utah Valley University. Her areas of expertise include: philosophy of religion, Mormon studies, philosophy of gender, and philosophy of logic. 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, 2000-2002.

As a trans woman, Potter has addressed injustices and issues surrounding transgenderism within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Works
Potter has been published in numerous academic journals, websites, and essay collections.

Publications

 * “Trans and Mutable Bodies,” in The Routledge Handbook to Mormonism and Gender, edited by Amy Hoyt and Taylor Petrey. Routledge: New York. 2020.
 * “A Transfeminist Critique of Mormon Theologies of Gender,” in The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion: New Perspectives on Disability, Gender, Race, and Animals (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion). edited by Blake Hereth and Kevin Timpe. Routledge: New York. 2020.
 * “Mormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Spring 2016, Vol. 49, No. 1.
 * “Religious disagreement: internal and external,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, August 2013, Volume 74, Issue 1, pp 21–31.
 * “Lehi's Opposition Theodicy,” in Mormonism at the Crossroads of Philosophy and Theology, Greg Kofford Press, 2012.
 * “Diagrammatic Representation,” Dialectica 60:4, 2006, pp. 369–382.
 * “The Sacramental World View: A philosophical comparison of Joseph Smith’s magical view of ordinances with a Liberation view of sacraments,” Sunstone, December 2006, pp. 48–52. 2006 R.L. “Buzz” Capener Memorial Writing
 * Contest in Comparative Religious Studies, Second Place Winner.
 * “Liberation Theology in the Book of Mormon,” in Discourses in Mormon Theology, James McLachlan and Brian Birch eds., Greg Kofford Books (October 2007).
 * “The Global Church: Exploring the Problem of Religious Diversity from a Mormon Context,” in Spheres of Globalization, ed. David Keller, Utah Valley State, 2006.
 * “Restored Epistemology: A Communicative Pluralist Answer to Religious Diversity,” Element: The journal of the society for Mormon philosophy and theology, Vol.1: No. 2, Fall 2005.
 * “Toward a New Reading of the Book of Mormon,” Sunstone (Issue 139) November 2005.
 * “What Does God write in His Franklin Planner? The Paradoxes of Providence, Prophecy, and Petitionary Prayer,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 37 No. 2.
 * “Moral Dilemmas and Inevitable Sin,” Faith and Philosophy, Vol. 20 No. 1 (Jan. 2003): 63-71.
 * “The standard argument against diagrams,” Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Society of Exact Philosophy. Oxford: Hermes Science Publishing, 2001.
 * “Defending Magic: Explaining the Necessity of Ordinances,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 35 No. 2 (Summer 2002):139-146.
 * “Finitism and the Problem of Evil,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 33 No. 4 (Winter 2000): 83-96.
 * “How Deep the Chasm? A Reply to Owen and Mosser's Review,” Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies: Review of Books, Vol. 11, No. 2 (1999) pp. 221–64.
 * “Did Christ Pay for Our Sins?,” Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Vol. 32 No. 4 (Winter 1999): 73-86.
 * “Review of Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education,” Sunstone, Vol.22:2 (1999), Issue 144.
 * “Wong On Davidson,” in Philosophical Papers, Vol. XXIV, No.1 (1995), pp. 75–81.

Presentations

 * "The Subjective Universality of Kant's Aesthetic Judgment" at Discipuli: A Graduate Student's Philosophy Conference at The University of Southern California, March 1992;
 * "Hegel's Theodicy" at The Society of Christian Philosopher's Inter-Mountain Regional Mtg, March 1992;
 * "On Learning the Holist's Language" at The Northwest Conference on Philosophy at Boise State University, Nov. 1992;
 * "Socrates and Moral Truth" at Philosophy Club BYU, Feb. 1993;
 * "The Empirical Foundations of Holism" at Discipuli: A Graduate Student's Philosophy Conference at The University of Southern California, March 1993.
 * "The Elenchus and Ineradicable Truth" at the Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting of The Florida Philosophical Association, Nov. 1993.
 * "Can Plato Have His Cake and Eat It Too?" at the Fortieth Annual Meeting of The Florida Philosophical Association, Nov. 1994.
 * "Truth Theory Limited" at The Limits of Philosophy: The Third Annual Philosophy Conference at DePaul University, May 1996.
 * "Truthmakers and Theories of Truth" at the Indiana Philosophical Association's annual conference, Nov. 1997.
 * "Moral Dilemmas and Inevitable Sin" at the Pacific APA divisional meeting, April 1999.
 * "A Particular Argument against Diagrams" at the Indiana Philosophical Association, April 1999.
 * "The Standard Argument against Diagrams" at the Society for Exact Philosophy's annual conference, Lethbridge, Canada, May 1999.
 * "Finitism and The Problem of Evil," 25th Annual Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, July 1999.
 * "Locke and Berkeley on Abstraction and Infinite Divisibility," American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, December 2001.
 * “Recollecting God,” Annual Sunstone Theological Symposium, 2001.
 * “Defending Magic,” Annual Sunstone Theological Symposium, 2002.
 * “Liberation Theology in the Book of Mormon,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, August 2003.
 * “War and the Book of Mormon,” Mormon Women's Forum, University of Utah, 2003.
 * “Collective Sin and Communal Grace,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, August 2004.
 * “Liberation Theology in the Book of Mormon,” The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, March 2004.
 * “The Politics of Formalization,” The Radical Philosophy Association, Nov. 2004.
 * “Restored Epistemology,” The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, March 2005.
 * “Post-mortem Materialism,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, August 2005.
 * “Mormonism and the Death Penalty,” Ethics Awareness Week, Fall 2005.
 * “Mormon Cultural Studies: South Park,” Sunstone Symposium West, Claremont Graduate School of Religion, April 2006.
 * “The Viper Defanged: Radical Mormon Theology vs. Conservative Mormon Practice” presented at The Latin American Association for Religious Studies, Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 2006. (David Knowlton presented on in Potter's behalf)
 * “Mormon Cultural Studies: South Park,” Sunstone Symposium SLC, UT, August 2006.
 * “The Sacramental World View: A Philosophical Comparison of Joseph Smith’s Magical View of Ordinances with a Liberation View of Sacraments,” Sunstone Symposium SLC, UT, August 2006.
 * “‘The poor is god on earth’: Religious Discourse in Hardt and Negri’s Post-Marxian Theory,” Radical Philosophy Association, Creighton University, Omaha, Nov. 2006.
 * Guest Lecture at Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado on Mormon Studies.
 * “Opposing Lehi’s Theodicy” The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, March 2008.
 * "Heterodoxy and Interreligious Contradiction" The Society of Christian Philosophy, Westmont College, Feb. 2012.
 * "Religious Disagreement: Internal and External" The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Utah State University, Sept. 2012.
 * "Mormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy" The AAR regional conference: Religion in the Rockies and the Great Plains, at University of Denver, June 22, 2013.
 * "Mormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy" Plenary Session: The Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology, Utah Valley University, Oct 31- Nov 2, 2013.
 * "Revisiting the Positivist's Critique of Religious Belief, " The Annual Intermountain Philosophy Conference, October, Utah Valley University, Nov 8, 2013.
 * "Mormonism and the Problem of Heterodoxy" The Ethics Center's Conference by the Faculty, Utah Valley University, January 2014.