Marc Moffett
Associate Professor

Spring 2013 Office Hours

Mon 10:00-11:00; Wed/Thurs 1:00-2:00 and by appointment

B.A. New Mexico State University 1993; M.A. University of Colorado 2002; Ph.D. 2003; Associate Professor of Philosophy 2009, 2003

Biography:

Professor Moffet received his PhD in 2003 from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He specializes in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Language. His current research projects concern the metaphysics of epistemology, the diachronic/modal dimensions of knowledge, knowledge-how, intuition, the relationship between linguistic and philosophical analysis, and semantic compositionality. He is co-editor of Know How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind and Action. In addition, Professor Moffett has published papers in Journal of Semantics, Philosophical Studies, Canadian Journal of Philosophy and Episteme: A Journal of Social Epistemology.

Courses Taught - Undergraduate:

• Symbolic Logic
• Introduction to Syntax
• Philosophy in the 20th Century: Foundations of Analytic Philosophy
• Philosophy of Mind
• Introduction to Epistemology
• Introduction to Metaphysics
• Philosophy of Hunting/Fishing
• American Indian Philosophy
• Philosophy of Biology
• Critical Thinking: Puzzles & Paradoxes
• Introduction to Philosophy

Courses Taught - Graduate:

• Perception
• Modal Epistemology
• Contextualism
• Know-how
• Time, Identity & Persistence
• Philosophical Analysis
• Metametaphysics
• Formal Semantics for Natural Languages
• Intensionality
• Introduction to Mathematical Logic