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Dr Jessica Moss

Tutorial Fellow in Ancient Philosophy, Balliol College
Lecturer in Philosophy

jessica.moss@philosophy.ox.ac.uk

Balliol College
Broad Street,
Oxford, OX1 3BJ

http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/

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Research Interests

Ancient philosophy (ethics and psychology)

Career & Education

1995 BA Yale
2003 PhD Princeton
2003-2008 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh


Recent Publications

  1. Aristotle on the Apparent Good, OUP, forthcoming. [Abstract]
  2. "Soul-Leading: The Unity of the Phaedrus Again", forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy
  3. "Virtue Makes the Goal Right": Virtue and Phronesis in Aristotle's Ethics, Phronesis 56, 2011
  4. “Pictures and Passions in the Timaeus and Philebus,” in Plato and the Divided Self, R. Barney, T. Brennan and C. Brittain eds., forthcoming, CUP
  5. “Aristotle’s non-trivial, non-insane view that we always desire things under the guise of the good,” in Desire and the Good, S. Tenenbaum ed., forthcoming, OUP
  6. “Akrasia and Perceptual Illusion,” Archiv fur Geschichte der Philosophie 91, 2009
  7. “Appearances and Calculations: Plato’s Division of the Soul,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 34, 2008
  8. “The Doctor and the Pastry Chef: Pleasure and Persuasion in Plato’s Gorgias,” Ancient Philosophy 27, 2007
  9. “What is Imitative Poetry and Why is it Bad?” The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, G.R.F. Ferrari ed., 2007
  10. “Pleasure and Illusion in Plato”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72, 2006
  11. “Shame, Pleasure and the Divided Soul,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 29, 2005