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Jessica Moss, Assistant Professor

Ancient Philosophy

PhD, Princeton, 2003

Jessica Moss is an assistant professor of philosophy and a member of the Graduate Program in Classics, Philosophy and Ancient Science. She specializes in Ancient Philosophy, and is working on topics in moral psychology in Plato and Aristotle.

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“Shame, Pleasure and the Divided Soul,” Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XXIX (2005)

“Pleasure and Illusion in Plato,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (2006)

“What is Imitative Poetry and Why is it Bad?”, in The Cambridge Companion to Plato’s Republic, ed. G.R.F. Ferrari, 2007.

"Appearances and Calculations: Plato's Division of the Soul," forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy

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Carnap's record of the Vienna Circle members' votes about certain important philosophical propositions and how their positions were changed after reading the Tractatus of Wittgenstein. open [+]

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