DPhil student in PhilosophySomerville CollegeUniversity of Oxford

Evie Moss Philosopher

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01 / About

Hi, I’m Evie!

I am a DPhil student in Philosophy at Somerville College, University of Oxford.

I am supervised by Dr Bernhard Salow (opens in a new tab) and Professor Mona Simion (opens in a new tab). My research is primarily on certainty, but I am also interested more generally in epistemology, the philosophy of mind and language and the philosophy of AI.

My favourite colour is red.

Evie standing by black railings in a black halter-neck dress, looking over her shoulder, with the lawns and red brick buildings of Somerville College behind her
The red brick front of the Somerville College library, framed by autumn leaves, with a green lawn in front

Funded by

  • UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council logo
    Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership logo
    Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and its Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership (OOC-DTP)
  • Clarendon Fund logo
    The Clarendon Fund
  • Somerville College coat of arms

    Ruth Adler Graduate Scholarship

    Ruth Adler Graduate Scholarship, Somerville College
The dome and columns of the Radcliffe Camera against a deep blue sky

02 / Research

Certainty

My current research focuses primarily on certainty: what it means for a person, or a proposition, to be certain.

I cover four main topics. Select a star to read more.

Certainty and its neighbours

How psychological and epistemic certainty relate to neighbouring notions such as confidence, credence one, and being sure.

Cover of Passion in Action: emotion and its relation to reason, by Rowland Stout, with a single line drawing of figures on a blue background

I also have some work on dispositional mental states, and I worked as a research assistant to Professor Rowland Stout on his book Passion in Action.

03 / Talks

Talks

‘Getting in touch with yourself: Explaining our unmediated access to dispositional states’

  • ‘Passion in Action’ Conference, University College Dublin25 August 2025
  • 99th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association, University of Glasgow13 July 2025
  • DPhil Seminar, University of Oxford5 March 2025

‘Certain Beyond (Contextually) Relevant Doubt: Debunking the Scepticism of Conspiracy Theorists’

  • 2nd Scottish Graduate Conference in Applied Epistemology, University of Glasgow9 September 2024
PublicationsWorks in progress
  • ‘A puzzle about certainty’In progress
  • ‘Getting in touch with yourself: Explaining our unmediated access to dispositional mental states’In progress

04 / Teaching

Teaching

As a tutor I curate reading lists, grade essays, and lead one-on-one and small group tutorials.

Snow on the garden and honey-coloured stone buildings of Somerville College

Lecturing

Knowledge & Reality

I am co-teaching Knowledge & Reality with Professor Mona Simion (opens in a new tab), collaborating on module design, course material and teaching delivery.

University of Oxford  ·  MT 26

Philosophy of Mind

  • Somerville College, University of OxfordHT 25, 26
  • Lady Margaret Hall, University of OxfordMT 26, HT 27

Knowledge & Reality

  • St Edmund Hall, University of OxfordHT 25
  • St Anne’s College, University of OxfordTT 25
  • Jesus College, University of OxfordHT 26

General Philosophy

  • St Edmund Hall, University of OxfordHT 25

MT, HT and TT stand for Michaelmas, Hilary and Trinity terms.

05 / Outreach

Philosophy for everyday disagreements

In my spare time I run an Instagram page, @justifiedtruebeli.evie, where I try to make philosophy accessible and apply it to everyday social and political disagreements, occasionally interrupted by outfits and other matters of equal philosophical importance. (Also on TikTok.)

Follow on Instagram (opens in a new tab)

Substack: coming soon

a few favourites

Instagram cover with the title ‘the secret to winning arguments’, over a library with people reading and a laptop on a tableView the Instagram post: the secret to winning arguments (opens in a new tab)
Instagram cover with the title ‘when men are too emotional to use logic’, over a close-up of Evie and a collage of imagesView the Instagram post: when men are too emotional to use logic (opens in a new tab)
Instagram cover with the title ‘life when you study epistemology’, showing Evie in sunglasses and a red top drinking from a glass in a garden, with a stack of old booksView the Instagram post: life when you study epistemology (opens in a new tab)

06 / CV

Curriculum vitae

Download CV (PDF) (opens in a new tab)

Areas of research

Specialisation: Epistemology, Philosophy of Language
Competence: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of AI, Metaphysics, Ethics

Education

  • DPhil Philosophy, University of Oxford

    2024 to present

  • MLitt Philosophy, University of St Andrews

    Distinction

    2022 to 2023

  • BA (Joint Honours) Philosophy & English Literature, University of Birmingham

    First Class

    2019 to 2022