Sarah Moss Contact 2215 Angell Hall, 435 South State St. 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 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 Thomas E. Sunderland Faculty Fellow, University of Michigan Law School, 2018-19 ADVANCE Faculty Summer Writing Grant, 2016, 2017 Distinguished Visitor, Purdue University Philosophy, 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 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 Book Probabilistic Knowledge Oxford University Press, 2018 Author Meets Critics session on Probabilistic Knowledge Central APA, February 2019 2-day masterclass on Probabilistic Knowledge King s College London, March 2018 3-day book symposium on Probabilistic Knowledge University of Hamburg, August 2017 Papers Full Belief and Loose Speech manuscript under review Global Constraints on Imprecise Credences manuscript under review Moral Encroachment forthcoming in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 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. Credal Dilemmas Noûs vol. 49, no. 4 (2015): 665 83. On the Semantics and Pragmatics of Epistemic Modals Semantics and Pragmatics vol. 8, no. 5 (2015): 1 81. Epistemology Formalized Philosophical Review vol. 122, no. 1 (2013): 1 43. Subjunctive Credences and Semantic Humility Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 87, no. 2 (2013): 251 78.
Four-Dimensionalist Theories of Persistence Australasian Journal of Philosophy vol. 90, no. 4 (2012): 671 86. On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals Noûs vol. 46, no. 3 (2012): 561 86. Updating as Communication Philosophy and Phenomenological Research vol. 85, no. 2 (2012): 225 48. Solving the Color Incompatibility Problem Journal of Philosophical Logic vol. 41, no. 5 (2012): 841 51. 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. Presentations Full Belief and Loose Speech Washington University, April 2018 Oxford University, March 2018 Philosophical Linguistics and Linguistical Philosophy, October 2017 Northwestern Epistemology Brown Bag Series, May 2017 Global Constraints on Imprecise Credences Princeton Conference, April 2018 Moral Encroachment Aristotelian Society, March 2018 Pacific APA, March 2018 University of British Columbia, January 2018 Probabilistic Knowledge and Legal Proof Simon Fraser University, January 2018 New York University, October 2017 Rutgers Value Theory Workshop, October 2017 Analytic Legal Philosophy Conference, April 2017 University of Texas, Austin, January 2017 Probabilistic Knowledge and Transformative Experience Themes in Transformative Experience Conference, April 2017 Probabilistic Knowledge Brown University, February 2017
Ranch Metaphysics and Epistemology Workshop, January 2017 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
Service Journal Editorial Boards Editorial Board, Mind Editorial Board, Semantics and Pragmatics Editorial Panel for Epistemology, Thought Conference Program Committees APA Eastern Division Program Committee, 2017 18 APA Eastern Division Advisory Committee to Program Committee, 2013 16 Formal Epistemology Workshop Submissions Organizer, 2015 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference Co-organizer, 2014 APA Central Division Nominating Committee, 2016 17 Director of Graduate Studies, 2016 18 Philosophy Department Committees Graduate Studies Committee, 2009 10, 2013, 2016 18 Graduate Admissions Committee, 2012 13, 2014 15 Undergraduate Studies Committee, 2010 11 Departmental Grade Appeal Board, 2010 11 Junior Recruitment Committee, 2009 10 Philosophy Department Climate Ombudsperson, 2014 15 Refereeing of book manuscripts, grant proposals, and abstracts: MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge, German Academic Exchange Service, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, Formal Epistemology Workshop, International Congress of Linguists, North East Linguistic Society, Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, Sinn und Bedeutung Conference, Society for Exact Philosophy Refereeing of journal submissions: American Philosophical Quarterly, Analysis, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Cognition, Episteme, Ergo, Erkenntnis, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Feminist Philosophy Quarterly, Inquiry, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 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 Papers, Philosophical Review, Philosophical Studies, Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Philosophy of Science, Review of Symbolic Logic, Semantics and Pragmatics, Synthese, Thought