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Dr. Mosser is an associate professor for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. His most recent work explores the internal migration, South to North, of both Whites and African Americans (1920-1960), and the role popular music (specifically bluegrass and blues) played in developing, maintaining, and changing cultural identity.

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Dr. Mosser is an associate professor for the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. His most recent work explores the internal migration, South to North, of both Whites and African Americans (1920-1960), and the role popular music (specifically bluegrass and blues) played in developing, maintaining, and changing cultural identity.

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1992 - Present	Associate Professor, University of Dayton ‐ Department of Philosophy
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Philosophy and Other Philosophy

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Labor history and Philosophy of Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein

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1990	PhD, University of Chicago
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1982	MA, University of Chicago
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1979	BA, Southern Methodist University
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4th Floor, Jesse Phillips Humanities Center

University of Dayton

300 College Park

Dayton, OH 45469

Office Phone: 937-229-2810

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Articles (22)

Cover Songs (Kurt Mosser) Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped our Culture (2013)

Naturalism and the Surreptitious Embrace of Necessity (Kurt Mosser) Metaphilosophy (2011)

In this article, two philosophical positions that structure distinct approaches in the history of metaphysics and epistemology are briefly characterized and contrasted. While one view, “naturalism,” rejects an a priori commitment to necessity, the other ...

Teaching the Bill of Rights in China (Kurt Mosser) The History Teacher (2010)

Recently, I was asked if I was interested in teaching a relatively short course on a topic of my choosing at Nanjing University in Nanjing, People's Republic of China. I agreed, and designed a course ...

The Philosophical Sins of Stephen Pinker (Kurt Mosser) Contemporary Philosophy (2009)

Kant and Wittgenstein: Common Sense, Therapy, and the Critical Philosophy (Kurt Mosser) Philosophia (2009)

Kant’s reputation for making absolutist claims about universal and necessary conditions for the possibility of experience are put here in the broader context of his goals for the Critical philosophy. It is shown that within ...

The Grammatical Background of Kant's General Logic (Kurt Mosser) Kantian Review (2008)

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant conceives of general logic as a set of universal and necessary rules for the possibility of thought, or as a set of minimal necessary conditions for ascribing rationality ...

Cover Songs: Ambiguity, Multivalence, Polysemy (Kurt Mosser) Popular Musicology Online (2008)

The notion of a “cover song” is central to an understanding of contemporary popular music, and has certainly received its share of attention in writing about contemporary music, from the mainstream press to slightly more ...

Kant’s Logic(s) and the Logic of Aristotle (Kurt Mosser) Southwest Philosophy Review (2007)

In the Preface to the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant offers his best·known- indeed, notorious- remark about Aristotle 's logic: Since Aristotle ... logic has not been able to advance a ...

Looking for a Fight: An Agonistic Strategy for Teaching (Kurt Mosser) Teaching Philosophy (2006)

This exercise requires students—particularly in Introduction to Philosophy courses—to use Internet chatrooms in an “agonistic” fashion, actively seeking out others with whom to argue. Generally using topics in applied ethics, students develop skills in articulating ...

Comments on Robinson, 'Langton and Traditionalism on Things in Themselves' (Kurt Mosser) Southwest Philosophy Review (2002)

In her Kantian Humility , Rae Langton has worked very hard to steer us back toward a traditional reading of the Critique of Pure Reason, one that would make it safe to maintain a number ...

Translation and Introduction: Klaus Reich's 'Kant und Rousseau' (Kurt Mosser) Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (2002)

Why Doesn't Kant Care About Natural Language? (Kurt Mosser) Dialogue (2001)

Kant s'est fait régulièrement reprocher, à son époque et à la nôtre, d'avoir ignoré le problème des langues naturelles. L'objection la plus connue à cet égardest celle de J. G. Hamann, qui a prétendu qu'en ...

BonJour, Kant, and the 'A Priori' (Kurt Mosser) Disputatio: Philosophical Research Bulletin (1999)

In his 1985 The Structure of Empirical Knowledge, Laurence BonJour presented a compelling and articulate defense of a coherence theory of knowledge. Following what he called a “dialectical” strategy, he began by indicating the central ...

Fred Bartenstein: The Right Place at the Right Time (Kurt Mosser) Bluegrass Unlimited (1999)

Fred Bartenstein has always seemed to find himself perfectly situated to pursue his life-long interest in bluegrass music – as he puts it, “I’ve always seemed to be in the right place at the right ...

Kant and Feminism (Kurt Mosser) Kant-Studien (1999)

The juxtaposition of Kant's name with "feminism" seems almost designed to invite scorn and indignation. As we will soon see, throughout his career Kant made a variety of noxious and distasteful comments about women. As ...

The Limits of Gendered Reason (Kurt Mosser) Grazer Philosophische Studien (1999)

In recent years, an approach within feminist philosophy of reason has emerged, for convenience called "gendered reason," that states that due to differences of sex and gender, women and men perceive, think, know, understand, judge, ...

Should the Skeptic Live His Skepticism? Nietzsche and Classical Skepticism (Kurt Mosser) Manuscrito (1998)

Kant's Dialectical Subject and the Bias Paradox (Kurt Mosser) Contemporary Philosophy (1997)

Kant's Critical Model of the Experiencing Subject (Kurt Mosser) Idealistic Studies (1995)

In an appendix to the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant remarks Leibniz intellectualized appearances, just as Locke ... sensualized all concepts or the understanding, i.e. interpreted them as nothing more than ...

Teaching Kant to Undergraduates: Some Notes (Kurt Mosser) APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy (1993)

Nietzsche, Kant, and the Thing in Itself (Kurt Mosser) International Studies in Philosophy (1993)

Nietzsche .scholarship —- and here I will be talking exclusively about English-language work—has come a long way since Walter Kaufmann's groundbreaking study appeared in 1950. During this same time span, and particularly in the last ...

Stoff and Nonsense in Kant's First 'Critique' (Kurt Mosser) History of Philosophy Quarterly (1993)

Most philosophers, particularly those with idealistic tendencies, don’t talk much about being hit over the head with a baseball bat, which might in fact be good for them—talking about it, that is. For it is ...

Books (1)

Necessity and Possibility: The Logical Strategy of Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' (Kurt Mosser) Philosophy Faculty Publications (2008)

If logic provides rules for thought, can there be similar rules for human experience? Kurt Mosser argues that reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as an argument for such a logic of experience makes more ...

Conference papers (4)

Kant's General Logic and Aristotle (Kurt Mosser) Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy (2008)

In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant uses the term “logic” in a bewildering variety of ways, at times making it close to impossible to determine whether he is referring to (among others) general logic, ...

The Noise of Battle: Talking Philosophy on the Internet (Kurt Mosser) Proceedings of the XXII World Congress of Philosophy (2008)

Although the Internet is often used to talk with those with whom one agrees, this paper presents an "agonistic" strategy designed to help students find discussion partners with whom they disagree. This "agonistic" strategy has ...

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