Shelby Moser

July 17, 2019

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 Art & Games 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.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Academic Book Chapters

  • “Why do we Play” working title, (forthcoming 2025) chapter in the Routledge Introduction to Aesthetics Coursebook, 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

  • “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>
  • “On Stephen Kidd’s ‘Play and Aesthetics in Ancient Greece’”, co-written with Stephanie Patridge British Journal of Aesthetics, forthcoming Spring 2024.
  • “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).
  • “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/>.