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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 Rortyâ€�,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 14  [in press]

2016: â€œA Note on Anselm's unum argumentumâ€�,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Études maritainiennes - Maritain Studies 32, pp. 155-70

2014: â€œWittgenstein, Form, and the Criterion of Understandingâ€�, 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-Ghazaliâ€�,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions 8, pp. 107-122

2011: â€œThomas Aquinas, Esse Intentionale, and the Cognitive As Suchâ€�,&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Review of Metaphysics 64, pp. 763-788

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

- Encyclopedia Entries

2013: â€œAbstractionâ€�, 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€œConativeâ€�, 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, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, Sackville (September 21)

2018: â€œSome Ends of Philosophy", at the Faculty of Arts Research Day, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, 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, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, 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, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, 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?â€�, at the Atlantic Region Philosophers' Association, St. Thomas University, Fredericton (October 31)

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

2015: â€œWittgenstein’s End of Philosophyâ€�, 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 Philosophyâ€�, 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 Invariableâ€�, at the Phoenix Colloquium, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, Sackville (January 16)  

2014: â€œ ‘I made you see others’: Wittgenstein on the Duty of Persuasionâ€�, at ‘Feed Your Brain’ Provost’s Lecture Series, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, Sackville (November 13)

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

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

2014: â€œWittgenstein’s Lie: Philosophical Investigations Â§133â€�, at the Phoenix Colloquium, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, Sackville (March 28)

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

2011: â€œWittgenstein and the Menoâ€�, at the Phoenix Colloquium Series, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, Sackville (September 30)

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

2011: â€œNaturalism and Idealism in Philosophy of Mind: an exitus-reditus Storyâ€�, at the Phoenix Colloquium, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, Sackville (January 31)

2010: â€œWittgenstein on What Religious Language Showsâ€�, 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-Ghazaliâ€�, at the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association, Saint Paul University, Ottawa (October 22)

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

2010: â€œTwo Questions About Natural Kindsâ€�, at the Phoenix Colloquium Series, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, Sackville (February 2)

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

2009: â€œAristotle, Representation, and Current Philosophy of Mindâ€�, at the Ancient Philosophy Conference, °®¶¹´«Ã½app, 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