Curriculum Vitae
Gregory S. Moss
Oglethorpe University
Hearst 306
Atlanta, Ga 30319
gmoss@oglethorpe.edu
Research Interests:
Areas of Specialty: History of Philosophy [German Idealism (Hegel, Kant), Classical Ancient Greek Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle), Neo-Kantianism (Ernst Cassirer), Phenomenology (Husserl)], Metaphysics, Epistemology
Areas of Competence: Philosophy of Mind, Early Modern Philosophy, 19th-20th Century Continental Philosophy (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger), Buddhist Philosophy
Education:
ABD, University of Georgia
Expected to Defend: Spring 2014
Advisor: Richard Dien Winfield
M.A. Philosophy, University of Georgia, 2003-2007
Advisor: Edward Halper
Ruprecht Karls Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005-2006
B.A. Philosophy, University of Georgia, 2003-2007
B.A. German, University of Georgia, 2003-2007
(With Honors, Magna Cum Laude)
Publications:
Moss Gregory S. (2013) “Hegel’s Free Mechanism”. International Philosophical Quarterly. (Volume 53, Issue 1, 73-85)
Moss Gregory S. (2013) “Motivating Transcendental Phenomenology”. Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology. (Forthcoming May, 2013)
Hurt, Nicole E., Moss, Gregory S., Bradley, Christen L., Camus, Melinda S., Larson, Lincoln R., Lovelace, Mathew D., Prevost, Luanna D., Riley, Nancy, Domizi, Denise, The Facebook Effect: College Students’ Perceptions of Online Discussions in the Age of Social Networking. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. (July 2012)
Book Reviews:
Moss, Gregory (2013) A Review of Hegel's Science of Logic: Re-Thinking in Thirty Lectures. (Forthcoming, Owl of Minerva)
Moss Gregory (2012) A Review of Julie Maybee’s Picturing Hegel: An Illustrated Guide to Hegel’s Encyclopedia Logic. Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2009. Owl of Minerva. (Volume 43, Fall 2012)
Colloquium Presentations:
Moss Gregory S. (2013) "Drew Christie's 'Three Accounts of No Self': a commentary". To be presented at the 2013 meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America at the College of the Holy Cross.
Moss Gregory S. (2012) “Lisa Leininger’s ‘Presentism: The Myth of Passage’: a Commentary”. To be presented at the Philosophy of Time Society, during the Eastern Division Meeting of the APA, December 2012 in Atlanta, Ga
Moss Gregory S. (2012) “Hegel’s Free Mechanism” Presented at Society for Systematic Philosophy at the One Hundred Ninth Annual Meeting of the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association, February 12-18 in Chicago, Illinois
Moss Gregory S. (2012) “Philip Stambovsky’s ‘Being as Knowing: The Onto-Epistemology of the Act of Inference’: A Commentary”. Presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America on Reason and the Rationality of Being
Moss Gregory S. (2011) “A Commentary on Timothy Clewell’s ‘McDowell’s Aristotle: Ethical Realism through Neurathian Reflection’”, presented at the first annual UGA Graduate Philosophy Society’s Graduate Philosophy Conference
Moss Gregory S. (2011) “A Commentary on Joseph Carter’s ‘Time and Arithmoumenon in Aristotle’s Physics Delta 10-14’”, Presented at the University of Georgia as a part of the UGA Philosophy Graduate School Lecture Series
Moss Gregory S. (2010)“Reflexivity of Method: An Education in Metaphysics” Presented at the 10th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Georgia
Moss Gregory S. (2009) “Augustine and the Theological Origin of Freedom”, Guest Lecture for Phi Sigma Tau at UGA
Moss Gregory S. (2008) “How the Function Concept Makes Scientific Phenomena ‘Work’” Presented at the Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy in Krakow, Poland
Moss Gregory S. (2008) “Motivating Transcendental Phenomenology: Husserl’s Critique of Kant”, Guest Lecture for Phi Sigma Tau at UGA
Moss Gregory S. (2008) “Language and the Possibility of Truth in Pre and Post Kehre Heidegger” Presenting at the 2008 conference of the Society for Existential Theory and Culture, (EPTC) in conjunction with the Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities of Canada at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada
Moss Gregory S. (2008) “A Commentary on Matthew Schlunke’s ‘Avoiding Affirmations: The Abuse of Heidegger’s Critique of Ontotheology’”, Presented at the 2008 conference of the EPTC at the University of British Columbia
Moss Gregory S. (2008) “Mirroring Human Capacity: How the External World Reflects Human Spirit (An Analysis of Cassirer’s Derivation of Empirical Knowledge)”. Presented at the 8th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Georgia
Moss Gregory S. (2008) “Heeding Kant’s Imperative: Investigating the Symbolic Character of Meaning in Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms”. Presented at the 2008 spring meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society at Emory University
Moss Gregory S. (2006). “Identity Relations: A Commentary on Dr. Jason Read’s Essay Politics: Citizen, Subject, and Most of All, Consumer” Presented at the Phi Sigma Tau Symposium, “What is Enlightenment?” at the University of Georgia sponsored by the UGA chapter of Phi Sigma Tau
Professional Affiliations:
American Philosophical Association
The Hegel Society of America
The Metaphysical Society of America
Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture
Professional Activities:
-Organizer and Faculty Moderator for the Undergraduate Colloquium on William James' Varieties of Religious Experience at the Spring 2013 Liberal Arts Spring Symposium.
-Faculty Advisor for the Thalian Society (Oglethorpe Philosophy Society) at Oglethorpe University (Fall 2012-Current)
-Organizer of First Annual Information Session on 'How to Prepare for Law School' at Oglethorpe University, Fall 2012
-Treasurer, UGA Graduate Philosophy Society, 2010-2011
Invited Guest Speaker (Sebastian Rand, Georgia State)
Co-coordinated First Annual UGA Graduate Philosophy Conference, Spring 2011
-President, UGA chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, 2006-2007
Invited Guest Speakers (Dr. Alexander Mourelatos, University of Texas) and (Dr. William Maker, Clemson), Spring 2007
Teaching Experience
Oglethorpe University:
Instructor of Record, Philosophy of Religion, Spring 2013
Instructor of Record, Ancient Philosophy, Spring 2013
Instructor of Record, Existentialism, Fall 2012
Instructor of Record, Ethical Theory, Fall 2012
Instructor of Record, Nietzsche, Spring 2012
Instructor of Record, Philosophy of Mind, Spring 2012
Instructor of Record, Core 102, Narratives of the Self II, Spring 2012
Instructor of Record, Core 101, Narratives of the Self I, Fall 2011 & Spring 2012
University of Georgia:
Instructor of Record, Metaphysics, Spring 2012
Instructor of Record, Introduction to Ethics, Spring 2012
Instructor of Record, Classics of Ancient Western Philosophy, Summer 2011
Instructor of Record, Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking, Spring 2010
Instructor of Record, Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2008-Summer 2009, Fall-Spring 2010-11
Teaching Assistant (Piers Stevens), Introduction to Ethics, Fall 2009
Teaching Assistant, (Daniel Farnham and Edward Halper), Introduction to Philosophy, Fall 2007- Spring 2008
Other Teaching:
Guest Lecturer, “Logical and Critical Thinking in Medicine”, Medical College of Georgia, Spring 2011
Languages:
German, Ancient Attic Greek
Fellowships/Scholarships
Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship (UGA), Summer 2012
Teaching Fellow, Oglethorpe University, Spring 2012
Teaching Assistantships in Philosophy at UGA, 2007-2012
Steven Severens Scholarship for Honors Philosophy Undergraduates, Spring 2007
Honors:
Nominated twice by the UGA Philosophy Faculty for the Excellence in Teaching Award, (Fall 2011, Spring 2013)
One of fifteen of the top 10% of TAs at UGA selected to participate in the Future Faculty Program, whose aim is to further develop the pedagogical talents of UGA’s best graduate student teachers. (Fall 2009- Spring 2010)
Awarded Outstanding Teaching Award (Top 10% of TAs) from UGA Graduate (School, Spring 2009)
University of Georgia Amazing Student Award (Summer 2007)
References:
Edward Halper
Distinguished Research Professor
Phone: 706-542-0668
E-mail: ehalper@uga.edu
Richard D. Winfield
Distinguished Philosophy Research Professor
Phone: 706-542-2811
E-mail: winfield@uga.edu
O Bradley Bassler
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Phone:706-542-2825
Email:bbassler@uga.edu
Elizabeth Brient
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Phone: 706-583-0668
Email: ebrient@uga.edu
Rene Jagnow
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Phone: 706 542 2824
Email: rjagnow@uga.edu
Graduate Coursework
Graduate Course, Instructor:
Plato, Frank Harrison
Aristotle (Metaphysics), Richard Winfield
Kant (Critique of Pure Reason), Winfield
Hegel (Science of Logic), Winfield
Continental Rationalism (Spinoza’s Ethics), Winfield
Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (Scott Soames’ Anthology), Dr. Zaragoza
Philosophy of Language (Wittgenstein, Austin), Bassler
Deductive Systems, Dr. Cross
Teaching Philosophy, Variety
Seminars
Semi Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Aristotle’s Metaphysics), Halper
Semi Modern and Continental Philosophy (Heidegger’s Being and Time), Brient
Semi Modern and Continental Philosophy (Husserl’s Phil. Investigations), Jagnow
Ethics (Kant), Fahmy
Logic (Husserl’s Formal and Transcendental Logic), Bassler
Philosophy of Mind (Mind and World), Jagnow
Philosophy of Language (Cassirer, Locke, Aristotle, et alia), Halper
Metaphysics (Philosophical Categories), Halper
Metaphysics (Form and Matter), Winfield
Epistemology (Contextualism), Sarah Wright
Topics in Philosophy (Aquinas’ Summa), Harrison
Readings in Philosophy (Hegel’s Science of Logic), Winfield
