Dr. Carol J. Moeller 

Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Program Director for Philosophy

Contact

Email: moellerc@moravian.edu
Telephone: 610-625-7881
Location: Comenius Room 107

Education

B.A., Oberlin College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Curriculum Vitae

Areas of Research and/or Expertise

Ethics, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Disabilities, and Cultural Studies

Recent Publications

  • "Radical Welcome: Unexpected Healing Spaces in Community-Researcher-Clinician Partnership for Health Equity," (Abstract) The Annals of Family Medicine, vol. 21, no. Supplement 1, 1 Jan. 2023, https://www.annfammed.org/content/21/Supplement_1/4041.
  • "Critical Moral Attention and Its Role in Forming a 'Beloved Community'", James Beauregaard, Giusy Gallo, Claudia Stancati, eds., The Person at the Crossroads: A Philosophical Approach, Vernon Press, 2020. https://vernonpress.com/book/950
  • "Skating on Stolen Land," Ms. Magazine. 9/13/2020. https://msmagazine.com/2020/09/13/daisy-purdy-arizona-skating-navajo-coronavirus/
  • "bell hooks Made Me a Buddhist." Buddhism and Whiteness, edited by George Yancy and Emily McRae, Lexington Books, 2019, pp. 181-206. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498581042/Buddhism-and-Whiteness-Critical-Reflections 
  • “'We Are Not Disposable’: ‘Psychiatric’/Psycho-Social Disabilities and Social Justice,” Simon Smith and James Beauregard, In the Sphere of the Personal: New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Persons, ed., Vernon Press, May 2016. (Note: this essay is a substantially expanded version of the plenary paper listed below.) https://vernonpress.com/book/72 
  • “Humans All: Changing the Frame on People with Intellectual Disabilities,” Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 32, Number 2, Winter 2012. https://dsq-sds.org/article/view/3184/3083
  • “Minoritized Thought: Open Questions of Latino/a and Latin-American Identities,” American Philosophical Association, Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, Spring 2009. https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/60044C96-F3E0-4049-BC5A-271C673FA1E5/v09n1Hispanic.pdf
  • “Interdisciplinarity and Challenges to Received Traditions,” Proceedings of Moravian University Learning in Common Faculty Workshop, (in house publication), May 2006. 
  • “Thoughts on Academic Rigor and Pedagogy,” Proceedings of Moravian University Learning in Common Faculty Workshop, (in house publication), May 2005. 
  • “Moral Responsiveness in Pediatric Research Ethics,” The American Journal of Bioethics, Fall 2003, Volume 3, Number 4, W1-W3.                
  • “Marginalized Voices: Challenging Dominant Privilege in Higher Education,” in Theorizing Backlash: Philosophical Reflections on the Backlash Against Feminism, edited by Ann Cudd and Anita Supersons, 2002, Book Series: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Series edited by James P. Sterba, Rowman and Littlefield.
  • “Realism and Identity: Rethinking the Categories of our Lives,” Cultural Logic, Volume 4, Number 2, Spring 2001). 
  • “Reframing Family Values: Leigh Kane’s Next of Kin Projects,” Invited program essay for Temple University Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, June 2 – August 5, 2000. 
  • "Transforming 'The Master's Tools': Teaching and Studying Philosophy in Graduate School," inDegrees of Freedom, Beth Mintz and Esther Rothblum (editors), Routledge, 1997.

Courses

  • 120 Introduction to Philosophy
  • 222 Ethics
  • 247 Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philosophy
  • 255 Social and Political Philosophy
  • 257 Bio-Ethics and Social Justice
  • 265 Feminist Philosophy
  • 267 West African Philosophy: Akan Ethics
  • 271 Race, Gender, Identity, and Moral Knowledge
  • 323 Tibetan Buddhist Thought
  • Hip Hop, Spoken Word, and Philosophy
  • Philosophy and Film