Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Office: HU 050L
Phone: 410-617-5972
mlbiss@loyola.edu

Education

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011
• M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008
• B.A., Swarthmore College, 2002

Areas of Specialization

• Ethics, including feminist ethics
• Kant’s ethical, social and historical philosophy
• 19th century German philosophy

Recent Publications

• “Aristotle on Friendship and Self-Knowledge: The Friend Beyond the Mirror,” History of Philosophy Quarterly 28.2 (April 2011).
• “Radical Moral Imagination: Courage, Hope and Articulation,” forthcoming in Hypatia
• “Moral Imagination, Perception and Judgment,” forthcoming in The Southern Journal of Philosophy
• “Arendt and the Theological Significance of Natality,” forthcoming in Philosophy Compass

Recent Awards

• American Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association for University Women (AAUW), 2010
• Spindel Emerging Scholar Prize, 2nd place, 2010.
• APA Graduate Student Travel Award, Central Division, 2011.