ALBERT G. MOSLEY, Ph. D. CURRICULUM VITAE

Albert G. Mosley
72 Dryads Green
Northampton, MA
01063

Professor, Smith College: September 2000 -
Professor, Ohio University: September 1990- August 2000
Professor, University of the District of Columbia: 1980-1990

A. EDUCATION

1. Ph.D., Philosophy -- University of Wisconsin (1975) Madison, Wisconsin
2. B.S., Mathematics -- University of Wisconsin (1963) Madison, Wisconsin

B. SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

  • Kahn Institute on Reparations (2002-2003), $50,000
  • Kahn Institute Short Project on Agriculture (2001), $5,000
  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar On Pragmatism, Penn State, June, 2001, $2500
  • Fund for a More Inclusive and Multicultural Curriculum Smith College (Diop Translation), $1000
  • Golden Apple Award, Center for Teaching Excellence Ohio University, 1999
  • Spetnagel Sabbatical Grant (1998-1999), $8,000
  • Ohio University African Studies Instructional Media Grant (1999), $1500
  • Ohio University Research Grant "Speciesism" (1998), $400
  • "Affirmative Action" (1996), $400
  • "African Philosophy Anthology" (1993), $200
  • Ohio University Honors Tutorial College Student Apprentice (1993), $3,000
  • Ohio University International Travel Grant, South Africa (1996), $500, Nigeria (1993), $500

    C. AREAS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE

    Introductory Logic; Symbolic Logic; Philosophy of Natural Sciences; Philosophy of Social Sciences; Philosophy of Technology; Philosophy of Economics; Marxism; Affirmative Action; Philosophy of Music; African Philosophy; African-American Philosophy; Social Ethics; Bio-Ethics; Philosophy of Sex; Philosophy of Racism; Pragmatism; Animal Rights.

    D. PUBLICATIONS

    Books:

  • Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Unfair Preference? with Nicholas Capaldi. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996)
  • African Philosophy: Selected Readings. (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995) An Introduction to Logic: From Everyday Life to Formal Systems, with Eulalio Baltazar. (Ginn Press, 1984)

    Articles:

  • "On the Aesthetics of Black Music", Journal of Aesthetic Education, vol.35, #3, Fall 2001, pp.94-98
  • "Affirmative Action", Symposia: Readings in Philosophy (Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000)
  • "Science, Technology, and Tradition in Contemporary African Philosophy" African Philosophy , vol.13, no.1, March 2000: 25-32 (Blackwell)
  • "On The Moral Basis for Affirmative Action: A Response to Pojman" in APA Newsletter on Black Philosophy, Spring 2000
  • "On Meaning in Music: Defending and Extending Meyer", Proceedings of the Ohio Philosophical Association, April 1999
  • "Preferential Treatment or Policies of Inclusion", International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 12:2, 161-168 , 1998
  • "Are Racial Categories Racist?", Research in African Literatures 28.4 (Winter 1997) pp.101-111
  • "Racism" in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement, ed. D. M. Borchert (Macmillan, 1996)
  • "Pluralism" in the Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement, ed. D. M. Borchert (Macmillan, 1996)
  • "Negritude, Nationalism, and Nativism: Racist or Racialist?" in African Philosophy: Selected Readings by A. Mosley, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999
  • "In Defense of Affirmative Action," in Applied Social and Political Philosophy, by E. Smith and H. G. Blocker (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1994)
  • "Introductory Logic at a Predominantly African American Open Admissions Urban University," APA Newsletter: Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, Vol. 91, No. 1, Spring 1992
  • "Affirmative Action and the Urban Underclass," Philosophy and the Black Underclass, ed. by William Lawson (Temple University Press, 1991)
  • "Preferential Treatment and Social Justice" in Terrorism, Justice, and Social Values, ed. by Creighton Peden (Edwin Mellon Press, 1990)
  • "The Effect of Logic on Subsequent Academic Performance" in Papers in the Social Sciences, vol.5, 1985-86
  • "Paradigms and the Case for Conceptual Relativism" in Papers in the Social Sciences, vol.3, 1983-84
  • "Negritude, Magic and the Arts" in Philosophy Born of Struggle: An Anthology of Afro-American Philosophy from 1917 to the Present ed. by Leonard Harris (Kendall-Hunt, 1982)
  • "The Metaphysics of Magic: Practical and Philosophical Implications" in Second Order: An African Journal of Philosophy (University of Ife Press, Ile-Ife, Nigeria), July, 1978

    E. WORKS IN PROGRESS

    Articles Forthcoming

  • "Music, Modernity, and Pragmatism", David Koch and Bill Lawson (eds) Race and Pragmatism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002)
  • "Magic and Witchcraft in Contemporary African Philosophy", Lee Brown (ed) African Philosophy, Epistemological and Metaphysical Perspectives (NY: Oxford University Press, 2002)
  • "Racial Differences in Sports: What's Ethics Got to Do with It" :
    in Mark Hollochak (ed) Philosophy and Sports (Englewood, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002)
    in Jan Boxhill (ed) Philosophy of Sports (NY: Blackwell, 2002)
  • "The Role of Music in the Black Atlantic", Philosophia Africana, Spring 2002
  • "African Philosophy at the Turn of the Century" Lott, T. and Pittman, (eds) A Companion to African?American Philosophy (Blackwell Publishers, 2002)
  • "Expanding the Moral Circle" Lott, T. and Pittman, J. (eds) My Bucket's Got a Hole in It: Critical Essays in African?American Philosophy (Routledge, 2002)
  • The Skeptical Inquirer: Conversations with the Late Prof. P.O. Bodunrin" , Philosophical Papers, vol.30, #3, October 2001

    Papers in Progress

  • "HIV, AIDS, and the Nature of Causation" with Prof Kosie Abrahams of The University of Western Cape, Capetown, South Africa
  • "Can You Feel What It Means: Emotion and Meaning in Music" with Prof. Tom Leedy, Univ. of San Diego, San Diego, California A translation from the French (with JoElla Mosley) of "Science, Religion, and Philosophy" by Chiek Anta Diop, with commentary.

    F. ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Member, Editorial Board, PHILOSOPHIA AFRICANA
  • President, Ohio Philosophical Association, 2000
  • Vice President, Ohio Philosophical Association: 1998-2000
  • Fellow, Management Development Program, Ohio University, 1997-1998
  • Chair, Philosophy Department, University of the District of Columbia: 1976-79, 1985-