SHELBY MOSER portrait
  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Division Of Games
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Philosophy

Research Summary

Shelby Moser is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in the Division of Games and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Philosophy. She's an analytic Philosopher of Games & Art with a specific focus on the ontology of interactivity and rules, the meaningfulness of play in social contexts, and the aesthetics of games. Shelby also has a background in the history and philosophy of the fine arts focusing on the challenges digital art imposes on museum-driven practices.

Education

  • Ph.D., History & Philosophy of Art, University of Kent, Canterbury UK. Project: Digitally Interactive Works and Video Games: A Philosophical Exploration

Publications

Select Book Chapters
 
•“Why Play Games?" working title, (forthcoming, 2025) chapter in the Routldge Introductin to Aesthietcs Coursebook, co-authored with Stephanie Patridge. Elizabeth Scarbrough and Evan Malone, Eds.
•“Analysing Interactivity and The Performative Actions of Games”, (forthcoming 2024) chapter in the Routledge Handbook to the Philosophy of Games, C. Thi Nguyen & John Sageng, Eds.
•“On Regarding Digital Art”, (2023) chapter in The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Painting and Sculpture, Noël Carroll & Jonathan Gilmore, eds.
•"Videogame Ontology, Constitutive Rules, and Algorithms”, (2018) chapter in The Aesthetics of Video Games, in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy series, Grant Tavinor & Jonathan Robson, Eds. 
 
Select Academic Journal Articles
 
•"A Garden of One's Own: or Why Are There No Great Lady Detectives?." Co-authored with Michel-Antoine Xhignesse. Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 9, no. 1 (2023). 
•“The Philosophy of Digital Art”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2023), co-authored with Katherine Thomson-Jones. <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/digital-art/#LocaArt>
•"Game, Sports, and Play: Philosophical Essays." British Journal of Aesthetics Vol 60:04, (2020): 505-510. <https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayaa021>.
•“The Philosophy of Digital Art”, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2019), co-authored with Katherine Thomson-Jones. <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/digital-art/#Bib>
•“Art and the Emotions: Debating the Work of Jenefer Robinson”, co-authored with Ryan Doran. Debates in Aesthetics, Vol 14:1, 2019. <http://www.debatesinaesthetics.org/archive/art-the-emotions-debating-the-work-of-jenefer-robinson/>.
•“Expression, Evolution, and Ontology: Debating the Work of Stephen Davies”, co-written with Ryan Doran. Debates in Aesthetics, Vol. 13:1, 2017. <http://www.debatesinaesthetics.org/>.