Full-Time Faculty
Freya Möbus, PhD
Title/s: Assistant Professor
Office #: Crown Center 343
Phone: 773.508.2296
Email: fmobus@luc.edu
External Webpage: https://www.freyamobus.com/
About
Freya Möbus is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy. She is interested in ancient Greek psychologies of human action and explanations of wrongdoing. The questions she explores are: How do our so-called non-rational mental states – our emotions, appetites, pleasures, and pains—influence our actions, especially bad ones? What kind of states are emotions, appetites, pleasures, and pains? Why do we sometimes fail to do what is right and how can we prevent future wrongdoing? Her research focuses on Socrates’ answers to these questions in Plato’s early dialogues. You can find her work at www.freyamobus.com.
Degrees
PhD, Cornell University
MA, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
BA, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn
Research Interests
Socratic philosophy, Plato’s early psychology and explanation of human action
Selected Publications
“Can Flogging make us less ignorant? Socrates on Bodily Punishment.” In: Ancient Philosophy (forthcoming).
“Socratic Motivational Intellectualism.” In: The Bloomsbury Companion to Socrates (forthcoming). Smith, N.; Jones, R.; Sharma, R. (eds.).
“Why do itches itch? Bodily pain in Socratic moral psychology.” 2020. In: Emotions in Plato. Candiotta, L.; Renaut, O. (eds.). Brill.
