Katherine Moses
Assistant Chair & Instructional Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy and Religion, College of Liberal Arts
BIO
In August 2024, I will join the faculty at the University of Mississippi as an Instructional Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religion. Previously, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida and before that a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Dame. I received my doctoral degree from Saint Louis University, working with John Greco, Eleonore Stump, Joseph Salerno, and Helen De Cruz on my dissertation, which focused on how persons learn together, gaining new knowledge through collaborative efforts. Prior to that, I received my undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of South Alabama, where I completed a thesis on free will and its implications for political philosophy. My areas of research and teaching include epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and history of philosophy. I particularly enjoy teaching courses in logic and history of philosophy, while I primarily write on topics such as social inquiry, flourishing, intellectual virtue, and the value of loving relationships.
WHY CLI?
As a fellow, I am interested in how people develop virtues such as honesty, humility, and integrity across different facets of life, particularly how they build relationships that help them grow in virtue and act virtuously in different settings and under different circumstances. I plan to focus my research on how people think about their relationships with others and whether they act morally well and intellectually well (or not) based on the particular locus of those relationships—relationships within the family, or within an educational or employment setting, religious setting, the economic realm, et al.