Curriculum Vitae Gregory S. Moss

Assistant Professor of PhilosophyFung King Hey Building Chinese University of Hong Kong E-mail: GSMOSS@clemson.edu

Areas of Specialization

18-20th Century Philosophy [Kant, Hegel, German Idealism, Neo-Kantianism, Early Phenomenology (Husserl)], Metaphysics, Epistemology

Areas of Competence

Classical Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics

Academic Employment

08.2016- Assistant Professor of Philosophy Present Chinese University of Hong Kong

08.2014- Lecturer in Philosophy05.2016 Clemson University

09.2013- Fulbright Research Fellow 07. 2014 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitӓt Bonn, Germany

01.2012- Teaching Fellow 5. 2012 Oglethorpe University

08.2011- Part Time Instructor of Philosophy 05.2013 Oglethorpe University

08.2007- Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy 05.2012 The University of Georgia

Education

Ph.D. in PhilosophyUniversity of Georgia, 2014Dissertation: “The Being of the Concept: A Historical and Systematic Inquiry”

Thesis Adviser: Richard Dien Winfield Committee Members: Edward Halper and Elizabeth Brient Dissertation Summary:

The dissertation uncovers the systematic connection between four paradoxes of self-reference that re-occur in different ways throughout the Western tradition of philosophy. Having explicated their systematic connection, and some ways they appear historically, I show how Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept from his Science of Logic is designed to solve the four paradoxes of self-reference. In order to accomplish this task, I carefully explicate and re-construct Hegel’s arguments concerning universality, particularity, and individuality.

Fulbright Research Fellowship, 2013-2014Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, GermanyProject: “Schelling’s Influence on Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept“Fulbright Advisor: Markus Gabriel

M.A. in PhilosophyUniversity of Georgia, 2007Master's Thesis: “Three Freedoms of Language”Thesis Advisor: Edward HalperCommittee Members: Richard Dien Winfield and Rene Jagnow

Ruprecht Karls Universitӓt, Heidelberg, Germany, 2005-2006

B.A. Philosophy, University of Georgia, 2003-2007B.A. German, University of Georgia, 2003-2007 (With Honors, Magna Cum Laude)

Journal Publications

“The Synthetic Unity of Apperception in Hegel's Logic of the Concept”(Idealistic Studies, Volume 45:3, September 2016)

"The Problem of Evil in the Speculative Mysticism of Meister Eckhart" in The Problem of Evil: New Philosophical Directions, Ed. Robert Arp and Benjamin McCraw (Lexington Books, 2016)

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“Four Paradoxes of Self-Reference”, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, (28:2, Fall 2014)

“Motivating Transcendental Phenomenology: Husserl's Critique of Kant”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, (Volume 44, Issue 2, 2013)

“Hegel’s Free Mechanism”. International Philosophical Quarterly, (Volume 53, Issue 1, 73-85, March 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, (Volume 6, No 2, 2012)

Books

Ernst Cassirer: The Autonomy of Language, Lexington Books (November, 2014)

(Reviewed by Samantha Matherne [University of California, Santa Cruz] in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, June 2015)

Book Reviews

[Invited] “A Review of Colin McGinn’s ‘Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained’”. (Review of Metaphysics, Issue No. 276, Summer 2016)

"A Review of Richard Dien Winfield's 'Hegel's Science of Logic: A Critical Re-Thinking in Thirty Lectures'." (Owl of Minerva, January 2014)

"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)

Translations

Gabriel, Markus. Why The World Does Not Exist. (Polity Press. September 2015) [From German into English]

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Gabriel, Markus. (Co-Translated with Abby Rutherford), “Neutral Realism” in The Monist. (Volume 98, Issue 2, April 2015) [Translated from German into English]

Awards and Fellowships

Winner of the 2015 Aristotle Prize— started in 1997, this prize is awarded to "the best paper submitted to the annual conference of the Metaphysical Society of America" by junior faculty. (See the MSA website.)

Invited to Participate at the Summer School in Hegel’s Philosophy of Subjective Spirit at the University of Bonn, July 2014

Fulbright Fellowship to Bonn, Germany (Full Research Grant), 2013-2014

Dissertation Completion Award (UGA), Fall 2013-Spring 2014

Nominated twice by the UGA Philosophy Faculty for the Excellence in Teaching Award, (Fall 2011, Spring 2013)

Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship (UGA), Summer 2012

Teaching Fellow, Oglethorpe University, Spring 2012

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

Teaching Assistantship in Philosophy at UGA, 2007-2012

Steven Severens Scholarship for Honors Philosophy Undergraduates, Spring 2007

University of Georgia Amazing Student Award (Summer 2007)

Wilcox Award for Most Outstanding German Major at UGA, 2007

Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium, 2005-2006 (Heidelberg Study Abroad Grant)

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UGA German Department Kicklighter Study Abroad Travel Grant, 2005-2006 (Travel Grant to Study in Heidelberg)

Languages

German (fluent)Ancient Greek (Some Reading Competence)

Conference Papers

“Hegel’s Rückkehre: Turning Back to the Pre-Socratic Palintropos”—Presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America in Annapolis Maryland, March 17th-20th, 2016.

“On the Necessity of Non-Conceptual Revelation”—Presented at the conference entitled The Problem of the Beginning, organized by the Forschungsnetzwerk Transzendentalphilosophie/Deutscher Idealismus at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, Denmark, February 18-20th, 2016.

“The Principle of Non-Contradiction in Hegel’s Logic of Essence and Schelling’s Ages of the World”— Presented at the Society for Systematic Philosophy at the Eastern Division of the APA, January 6-9th, 2016 in Washington DC.

“The Concept as Self-Determination: Hegel on the Conceivability of Self-Determination” (Winner of the Aristotle Prize)—Presented at the April 2015 meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America

“Less Than Nothing: Meister Eckhart on Evil” Presented at the 2015 Conference of the South Carolina Society for Philosophy at Wofford College, March 2015

(Invited) “Religion Beyond Dogma: Ibn Al Arabi on the Infinite” Invited Presentation at Oglethorpe University, November 2014.

“Four Paradoxes of Self-Predication” Presented at the Doktorand Colloquium at the University of Bonn in Bonn, Germany April 2014

“Hegel’s Begriff: Reflections on the Synthetic Unity of Apperception” Presented at the International Hegel Congress in Vienna, Austria April 2014

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"Three Dogmas of Universality" Presented at the 23rd World Congress of Philosophy at the University of Athens in Athens, Greece August 4th-August 10th 2013

“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, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois

”Reflexivity of Method: An Education in Metaphysics” Presented at the 10th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference at the University of Georgia in 2010

“Augustine and the Theological Origin of Freedom” Guest Lecture for Phi Sigma Tau at the University of Georgia in 2009.

“How the Function Concept Makes Scientific Phenomena ‘Work’” Presented at the Sixth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy in Krakow, Poland in 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

“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 in 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 in 2008

Conference Commentaries:

"Drew Christie's 'Three Accounts of No Self': A Commentary". Presented at the 2013 meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America at the College of the Holy Cross (2013)

“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 (2012)

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“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 (2012)

“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 (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 (2011)

“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 (2008)

“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 (2006)

Teaching Experience

Chinese University of Hong Kong German Idealism (Fall 2016) Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2016) Ancient Greek Philosophy (Spring 2017) Logic and Critical Thinking (Spring 2017)

Clemson University 19th Century Philosophy (Fall 2015)Philosophy of Religion (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking (Fall 2014 through Spring 2016)

Oglethorpe University Philosophy of Religion (Spring 2013)Ancient Greek Philosophy (Spring 2013)Existentialism (Fall 2012)Ethical Theory (Fall 2012)Nietzsche (Spring 2012)

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Philosophy of Mind (Spring 2012)Narratives of the Self II (Spring ’12,13)Narratives of the Self I (Fall ’11,’12)

University of Georgia

Instructor of Record: Metaphysics (Spring 2012)Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2012)Classics of Ancient Western Philosophy (Summer 2011)Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking (Spring 2010)Introduction to Philosophy, (Fall 2008-Summer 2009, Fall-

Spring 2010-11)

Teaching Assistant (Piers Stevens), Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2009)(Daniel Farnham and Edward Halper), Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)

Medical College of Georgia Guest Lecturer, “Logical and Critical Thinking in Medicine” (Spring 2011)

Professional Service and Program Development

Serving as a chair of a panel at the 24th Biennial meeting of the Hegel Society of America in Montreal, Canada, Nov. 4-6, 2016.

Assistant to the Director of the Law Liberty and Justice Program at Clemson University, Fall 2015

Co-Organizer, 2014-2015, (with Andrew Garner) of Faculty Research Seminars at Clemson University.

Invited Ricki Bliss [Lehigh University] to contribute to the Clemson Colloquium Series—She presented a paper entitled “Nishida and the Problem of Places” at Clemson University (March 24th, 2016)

Invited Graham Priest [CUNY] to contribute to the Clemson Colloquium Series—He presented a paper entitled “Speaking the Ineffable: East and West” at Clemson University (April 16th, 2015)

Organized Information Sessions on 'How to Prepare for Law School' at Clemson University (Spring 2015) and Oglethorpe University (Fall 2012)

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Chair of the session “Hegel and the Origin of Language” for the Society for Systematic Philosophy at the 2014 Meeting of the Eastern APA on December 29th Featuring Richard Dien Winfield (UGA) and Katharina Dulckeit (Butler University)

Organizer and Faculty Moderator for Oglethorpe's Undergraduate Colloquium on William James' Varieties of Religious Experience at the Spring 2013 Liberal Arts Spring Symposium (LASS).

Faculty Advisor (Informal) for the Thalian Society (Oglethorpe Philosophy Society) at Oglethorpe University, Fall 2012-Spring 2013

Treasurer, UGA Graduate Philosophy Society, 2010-2011

Co-coordinated First Annual UGA Graduate Philosophy Conference, Spring 2011Invited Sebastian Rand (Georgia State)

President, UGA chapter of Phi Sigma Tau (Philosophy Honors Society), 2006-2007

Invited Alexander Mourelatos (University of Texas) and William Maker (Clemson University), Spring 2007

Professional Affiliations

American Philosophical AssociationThe Hegel Society of AmericaThe Metaphysical Society of America Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and CultureSociety for Systematic PhilosophyGeorgia Philosophical SocietySouth Carolina Society for Philosophy

References

Richard D. Winfield Distinguished Philosophy Research Professor University of GeorgiaPhone: 706-542-2811Email: winfield@uga.edu

Edward HalperDistinguished Research Professor University of Georgia

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Phone: 706-542-0668Email: ehalper@uga.edu

William MakerProfessor of PhilosophyClemson University Phone: 864-656-5365Email: makerw@clemson.edu

Markus GabrielProfessor of Philosophy Chair of Epistemology, Modern and Contemporary Philosophy Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität BonnBonn, Germany Email: philoerk@uni-bonn.de

Guido Kreis Assistant Professor of Philosophy Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitӓt BonnBonn, Germany Phone: (0228) 73-62034Email: guido.kreis@uni—bonn.de

Devon BelcherAssociate Professor of PhilosophyOglethorpe UniversityPhone: 404-261-1441, Ext. 8375Email: dbelcher@oglethorpe.edu

Elizabeth Brient Associate Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of GeorgiaPhone: 706-583-0668Email: ebrient@uga.edu

Rene JagnowAssociate Professor of Philosophy University of GeorgiaPhone: 706-542-2824Email: rjagnow@uga.edu

O Bradley BasslerAssociate Professor of PhilosophyUniversity of GeorgiaPhone:706-542-2825Email:bbassler@uga.edu

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Graduate Coursework

Graduate CoursesPlato, Frank HarrisonAristotle (Metaphysics), Richard Winfield Kant (Critique of Pure Reason), WinfieldHegel (Science of Logic), Winfield Continental Rationalism (Spinoza’s Ethics), Winfield Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (Scott Soames’ Anthology), Zaragoza Philosophy of Language (Wittgenstein, Austin), Bassler Deductive Systems, Cross Teaching Philosophy, Variety

SeminarsSemi Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (Aristotle’s Metaphysics), HalperSemi Modern and Continental Philosophy (Heidegger’s Being and Time), BrientSemi Modern and Continental Philosophy (Husserl’s Phil. Investigations), JagnowEthics (Kant), Fahmy Logic (Husserl’s Formal and Transcendental Logic), BasslerPhilosophy of Mind (Mind and World), Jagnow Philosophy of Language (Cassirer, Locke, Aristotle, et alia), Halper Metaphysics (Philosophical Categories), Halper Metaphysics (Form and Matter), WinfieldEpistemology (Contextualism), Wright Topics in Philosophy (Aquinas’ Summa), HarrisonReadings in Philosophy (Hegel’s Science of Logic), Winfield

Dissertation Abstract

The main focus of the dissertation focuses on one question: what is it to be a concept? In the introduction I argue that in order to be able to answer this question, the concept must be self-referential and existentially implicative. Division I of the dissertation elucidates the main historical approaches to answering the question: ‘what is a concept?’. The result of the inquiry into the history of the question reveals that four fundamental dogmas have consistently been imposed upon the determination of the concept. These dogmas are the following: the principle of non-contradiction, the separation of the principles of universality and particularity, the finitude of the concept, and the appeal to foundations. In division II I argue that these dogmas systematically render it impossible to take the question ‘what is a

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concept?’ seriously, since they undermine the possibility of self-reference and existential implication. In particular, four paradoxes of self-reference arise upon the assuming these classical dogmas. The four paradoxes of self-reference are the following: the problem of participation, the problem of the missing differentia, the problem of psychologism, and the problem of onto-theology. While Division I explores the historical dimension of these problems, Division II explores their systematic connection and possible solutions to them. I argue that there are only two possible solutions to these problems: Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept and philosophical mysticism. Having explicated the systematic connection between the problems, I discuss both of these solutions in outline, but focus most of my attention on G.W.F. Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept in his Science of Logic (Wissenschaft der Logik). By carefully explicating Hegel’s account of universality, particularity, and individuality, I show how Hegel’s Doctrine of the Concept may be applied to solve these perennial paradoxes. Because Hegel advances a logic of self-reference and existential implication, his logic is designed to answer the question: ‘what is a concept?’ The alternative, philosophical mysticism, advances (albeit in various forms throughout the Western tradition) the thesis that we cannot give up the dogmas of self-reference, and for this reason we must recognize that we cannot attribute any purely conceptual content to the ‘concept as such’. For this reason, philosophical mysticism points us to an immediate and at best metaphorical grasp of ‘the concept as such’. Given that philosophical mysticism undermines the possibility of attributing purely conceptual content to the concept as such, I argue that the tradition of Western rationalism can only be preserved if we adopt a concept of the concept that is modeled on Hegel’s system. Such a system would introduce self-reference and existential implication into the structure of conceptual determination.

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