Sarah Moss Contact Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan 435 South State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 ssmoss@umich.edu http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ssmoss/ Employment University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Associate Professor of Philosophy, May 2013 to present Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 2009 13 Education MIT, Ph.D. in Philosophy with a minor in Linguistics, 2009 Oxford University, B.Phil. in Philosophy, 2004 Harvard University, A.B. with Honors in Mathematics, 2002 Honors Distinguished Visitor, Purdue University Philosophy, 2015 16 ADVANCE Faculty Summer Writing Grant, 2016 Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, 2013 14 APA Article Prize Honorable Mention, 2014 Biennial prize for papers published within 10 years of receiving a Ph.D. Awarded for Epistemology Formalized On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals included in the Philosopher s Annual, 2013 Sanders Prize in Epistemology Runner-up, 2013 Biennial prize for papers submitted within 15 years of receiving a Ph.D. Awarded for Time-Slice Epistemology and Action Under Indeterminacy University of Michigan Excellence in Education Award, 2013 University of Michigan Class of 1923 Memorial Teaching Award, 2013 Rutgers Young Epistemologist Prize, 2011 Biennial prize for papers submitted within 10 years of receiving a Ph.D. Awarded for Updating as Communication University of Michigan Nelson Fellowship in Philosophy, 2012 present University of Michigan Denise Research Fellowship, 2009 2012 Andrew W. Mellon Humanities Fellowship, 2004 2005 Marshall Scholar, 2002 2004
John Locke Prize in Mental Philosophy, 2003 500 awarded by six-hour exam to one Oxford student each year National Security Education Program Boren Scholar, 2000 $10,000 awarded by national competition to fund study abroad Jacob Wendell Scholar of the Harvard Class of 02, 2000 $10,000 awarded to most promising scholar of each Harvard class Publications Probabilistic Knowledge forthcoming with Oxford University Press Credal Dilemmas Noûs vol. 49, no. 4 (2015): 665 83. doi: 10.1111/nous.12073 On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Epistemic Modals Semantics and Pragmatics vol. 8, no. 5 (2015): 1 81. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3765/sp.8.5 Time-Slice Epistemology and Action Under Indeterminacy in John Hawthorne and Tamar Szabó Gendler (eds.), Oxford Studies in Epistemology vol. 5. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Epistemology Formalized Philosophical Review vol. 122, no. 1 (2013): 1 43. doi: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00550.x Subjunctive Credences and Semantic Humility Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 87, no. 2 (2013): 251 78. doi: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00550.x Four-Dimensionalist Theories of Persistence Australasian Journal of Philosophy vol. 90, no. 4 (2012): 671 86. doi: 10.1080/00048402.2011.628325 On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals Noûs vol. 46, no. 3 (2012): 561 86. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00798.x Updating as Communication Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 85, no. 2 (2012): 225 48. doi: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2011.00572.x
Solving the Color Incompatibility Problem Journal of Philosophical Logic vol. 41, no. 5 (2012): 841 51. doi: 10.1007/s10992-011-9193-3 The Role of Linguistics in the Philosophy of Language in Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. London: Routledge, 2012. Scoring Rules and Epistemic Compromise Mind vol. 120, no. 480 (2011): 1053 69. doi: 10.1093/mind/fzs007 Presentations To be determined Brown University, February 2017 Ranch Metaphysics and Epistemology Workshop, January 2017 Probabilistic Knowledge Northern Illinois Graduate Conference Keynote Address, October 2016 Purdue University, February 2016 MITing of the Minds conference, January 2016 University of Southern California, October 2015 University of Wisconsin, Madison, September 2015 Bayesian Theories of Perception and Epistemology, July 2015 Harvard University, March 2015 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2015 Comments for panel on epistemology and philosophy of language Michigan conference in honor of Allan Gibbard, May 2016 Comments for panel on semantics and pragmatics with Dilip Ninan and Seth Yalcin MIT conference in honor of Robert Stalnaker, April 2016 Comments on Plausible Permissivism by Matt Kopec and Mike Titelbaum Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2015 On the Semantics of Epistemic Vocabulary Rutgers Semantics Workshop, October 2014 University of California, Berkeley, October 2014 Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy, September 2014 Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT) 24, May 2014 University of Chicago Linguistics and Philosophy Workshop, May 2014 Ohio State University, March 2014
Time-Slice Epistemology and Action Under Indeterminacy NYU Columbia Graduate Conference Keynote Address, April 2013 Probabilistic Contextualism University of Texas Austin, January 2013 Credal Dilemmas University of Vermont, September 2012 Oxford University, June 2012 Formal Epistemology Workshop, May 2012 Tufts University, April 2012 Epistemology Formalized Lofoten Epistemology Conference, May 2012 Princeton University, April 2012 Rutgers University, November 2011 University of St Andrews, November 2011 Yale University, October 2011 Syracuse University, October 2011 Formal Epistemology Workshop, May 2011 Orange Beach Epistemology Workshop, May 2011 University of Pittsburgh, March 2011 The Dynamics of Indefinites: Comments on Karen Lewis Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2011 Updating as Communication Rutgers Epistemology Conference, May 2011 University of Toronto, October 2009 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2009 Formal Epistemology Workshop, June 2009 APA Pacific Division Meeting, April 2009 Subjunctive Credences and Semantic Humility Midwest Epistemology Workshop, October 2010 Specifying Desires: Comments on Delia Graff Fara NYU La Pietra Conference, July 2010 Four-Dimensionalist Theories of Persistence Carolina Metaphysics Workshop, June 2010 Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, April 2010
Scoring Rules and Epistemic Compromise Second Formal Epistemology Festival, May 2009 Formal Epistemology Workshop, May 2008 MITing of the Minds Conference, January 2008 Structural Equations and Counterfactuals: Comments on Katrin Schulz Rutgers Semantics Workshop, April 2009 Problems for the Stage Theory of Persistence CMM Graduate Conference, September 2008 On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2008 First Formal Epistemology Festival, July 2008 University of California, Berkeley, May 2008 University of Michigan, April 2008 NYU Philosophy Department Colloquium, October 2007 Massachusetts Bay Philosophy Alliance, October 2007 Desire Cancellation as Presupposition Failure: Comments on Desires, by Ben Bradley and Kris McDaniel Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, August 2007 Reverse Sobel Sequences and the Semantics of Counterfactuals Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 2007 That -Clauses in Specificational Copular Sentences: Comments on Jim Pryor SOFIA XVII conference in Cancun, Mexico, January 2007 Comments on Ethics as a Guide to Metaphysics, by Liz Harman Arizona Ontology Conference, January 2006 Service Editorial Board, Mind Editorial Board, Semantics and Pragmatics Editorial Panel for Epistemology, Thought APA Eastern Division Advisory Committee to the Program Committee, 2013 16 Philosophy Department Climate Ombudsperson, University of Michigan, 2014 15 Graduate Admissions Committee, University of Michigan, 2012 13, 2014 15 Organizer of the University of Michigan Crop Circle, 2009 present Formal Epistemology Workshop Submissions Organizer, 2015
Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference Program Committee, 2014 Graduate Studies Committee, University of Michigan, 2009 10, 2013 Faculty advisor to first-year graduate students, 2013 Faculty advisor to second-year graduate students, 2009 10 Undergraduate Studies Committee, University of Michigan, 2010 11 Departmental Grade Appeal Board, University of Michigan, 2010 11 Junior Recruitment Committee, University of Michigan, 2009 10 Referee for MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge, American Philosophical Quarterly, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Episteme, Ergo, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, Journal of Logic, Language, and Information, Journal of Philosophical Logic, Journal of Semantics, Linguistics and Philosophy, Mind, Natural Language Semantics, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, Philosophers Imprint, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy of Science, Semantics and Pragmatics, Synthese, Thought, Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Formal Epistemology Workshop, German Academic Exchange Service, International Congress of Linguists, Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Society for Exact Philosophy Teaching Phil 232: Problems of Philosophy Phil 297: Honors Introduction to Philosophy Phil 383: Knowledge and Reality Phil 404: Introduction to Analytic Philosophy Phil 413: Formal Methods in Philosophy Phil 601: Probabilistic Knowledge Phil 611: Conditionalization and Its Discontents Phil 611: Semantics Beyond Truth Conditions Phil 611: Probabilistic Knowledge Phil 615: Contemporary Research in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Language 1 1 Problem sets for selected courses are available online: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ssmoss/.