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Robbie Moser

Associate Professor
Office
Hart Hall 113

Biography

Robbie Moser studies philosophers and ideas of the mediaeval and analytic traditions. He has a special interest in metaphysics and characterizations of philosophy.

Publications

Academic Publications

- Journal Articles, Book Chapters   

2018: â€œThe Anti-Philosophy of Richard Rorty”,&˛Ô˛ú˛őąč;Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 14  [in press]

2016: â€œA Note on Anselm's unum argumentum”,&˛Ô˛ú˛őąč;Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies 32, pp. 155-70

2014: â€œWittgenstein, Form, and the Criterion of Understanding”, in Whence Intelligibility? Louis Perron, Ed., (Washington, DC: Council for Research and Values in Philosophy), pp. 13-30

2012: â€œThe Anti-Philosophy of Wittgenstein and al-Ghazali”,&˛Ô˛ú˛őąč;Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 8, pp. 107-122

2011: â€œThomas Aquinas, Esse Intentionale, and the Cognitive As Such”,&˛Ô˛ú˛őąč;Review of Metaphysics 64, pp. 763-788

2009: â€œWhat Does it Mean to Be a Thomist?” Ă‰tudes maritainiennes - Maritain Studies 25, pp. 112-128

- Encyclopedia Entries

2013: â€œAbstraction”, revised article by E.D. Simmons, in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy, volume 1. Robert L. Fastiggi, ed. 4 vols. (Detroit: Gale), pp. 2-7

2013: â€œConative”, original entry in New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-13: Ethics and Philosophy, volume 1. Robert L. Fastiggi, ed. 4 vols. (Detroit: Gale), pp. 298-99

Academic Presentations

2018: â€œCharles de Koninck, Philosophy, and the Limits of Knowledge", at the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish (October 20)

2018: â€œIrony, or Philosophy, in a Populist Age", at the Phoenix Colloquium, Mount Allison University, Sackville (September 21)

2018: â€œSome Ends of Philosophy", at the Faculty of Arts Research Day, Mount Allison University, Sackville (January 26)

2017: â€œIneffabilia", panel paper on Michael Hymers's Wittgenstein on Sensation and Perception (Routledge 2017), in an Author-Meets-Readers Symposium of the Atlantic Wittgenstein Reading Group, at the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association, St. Mary's University, Halifax (October 13)

2017: â€œRorty and the Role of Philosophy in Politics", at the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Ryerson University, Toronto (May 28)

2017: â€œHoly Nonsense: Wittgensteinians Effing the Ineffable", at the Phoenix Colloquium, Mount Allison University, Sackville (March 24)

2016: â€œTeaching Wittgenstein's Children", at the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association, Acadia University, Wolfville (October 22)

2016: â€œThe Vanishing Point of Anselm's Argument", at the Atlantic Mediaevalists Association, Mount Allison University, Sackville (October 1)

2015: “St Thomas, Fr Dewan, and the Metaphysics of Individuation", at the Symposium on the Philosophy of Lawrence Dewan, OP: Metaphysics and Ethics, Dominican University College, Ottawa (November 7)

2015: â€œ 'Philosophy as Therapy' to What End?”, at the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association, St. Thomas University, Fredericton (October 31)

2015: â€œSt Anselm's Expression”, at the Atlantic Mediaevalists Association, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown (October 3)

2015: â€œWittgenstein’s End of Philosophy”, Invited Public Lecture at the Department of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish (March 12)  

2015: â€œNot Particularly: Wittgenstein on a Source of Trouble in Philosophy”, Invited Public Lecture at the Department of Philosophy, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (February 18) 

2015: â€œAnselm’s Argument, Existence, and the Value of an Unbounded Invariable”, at the Phoenix Colloquium, Mount Allison University, Sackville (January 16)  

2014: â€œ ‘I made you see others’: Wittgenstein on the Duty of Persuasion”, at ‘Feed Your Brain’ Provost’s Lecture Series, Mount Allison University, Sackville (November 13)

2014: â€œWittgenstein’s Method as Socratic Recollection”, at the Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association, Memorial University, St. John’s (October 25)   

2014: â€œWittgenstein on Not Aiming at Completeness”, at the Dalhousie Philosophy Colloquium, Dalhousie University, Halifax (July 18)

2014: â€œWittgenstein’s Lie: Philosophical Investigations Â§133”, at the Phoenix Colloquium, Mount Allison University, Sackville (March 28)

2012: â€œDangerous Medicine: The Anti-Philosophy of Wittgenstein and Al-Ghazali”, at the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo (May 30)

2011: â€œWittgenstein and the Meno”, at the Phoenix Colloquium Series, Mount Allison University, Sackville (September 30)

2011: â€œKnowledge, Dialogue, and the Dewey-Russell Debate”, at the Canadian Philosophical Association, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton (May 31)

2011: â€œNaturalism and Idealism in Philosophy of Mind: an exitus-reditus Story”, at the Phoenix Colloquium, Mount Allison University, Sackville (January 31)

2010: â€œWittgenstein on What Religious Language Shows”, at the Western New York and Pennsylvania American Catholic Philosophical Association, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, USA (October 30)

2010: â€œDialogue, Scepticism, and the Renewed Interest in Al-Ghazali”, at the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Saint Paul University, Ottawa (October 22)

2010: â€œSt Thomas and the Criterion of Cognition”, at Canisius College, Buffalo NY, USA (May 25)

2010: â€œTwo Questions About Natural Kinds”, at the Phoenix Colloquium Series, Mount Allison University, Sackville (February 2)

2009: â€œA Block to Progress: Dewey and Russell on Immediate Knowledge,” at the Atlantic Region Philosophers’ Association, Cape Breton University, Sydney (October 17)

2009: â€œAristotle, Representation, and Current Philosophy of Mind”, at the Ancient Philosophy Conference, Mount Allison University, Sackville (August 5)

Education

PhD (University of Ottawa, 2009)

MA (Dalhousie University, 2002)

BA (St. Francis Xavier University, 2001)

Teaching

PHIL 1621 - Reason, Will, & World  (Introduction to Philosophy)

PHIL 2611 - Introductory Logic

PHIL 2801 - Metaphysics

PHIL 3101 - Mediaeval Philosophy

PHIL 3301 - Analytic Philosophy in Origin

PHIL 3311 - Analytic Philosophy in Progress

PHIL 3731 - Philosophy of Law

PHIL 4001 - Topics in History of Philosophy

PHIL 4511 - Philosophy of Mind

PHIL 4611 - Topics in Analytic Philosophy

Research

Mediaeval philosophy

20th-century analytic philosophy

Wittgenstein

Metaphysics