Monographs
What Gene’s Can’t Do (MIT, 2003), Japanese Edition (Seitosha, 2008)
Edited Volume
Naturalizing the Normative in Nature: Teleology as a Constitutive Form of Explanation (With Danial Nicholson) Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science (2012)
Refereed Journal articles and Book Chapters
"Normativity, System-Integration, Natural Detachment and the Hybrid Hominin" (2021) Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 20 (1): 21-37.
“New Naturalism and Critical Theory” (2017) in Gare, A., and Hudson, W. (eds) For a New Naturalism, Telos Press, NY, pp78-104.
“Detachment Theory, Agency and the Normative Nihilism of New Materialism” (2017) In Zammito, J. and Ellenzweig, S. (eds) Materialism and the New Politics of Ontology: History, Philosophy, Science, Routledge, New York, pp 227-249.
“The Grassblade beyond Newton: Self-organizing Matter and the Pragmatizing of Kant for Evolutionary-Developmental Biology” (with Stuart Newman) (2016) Lebenswelt 7:94-111.
“The Hybrid Hominin: A Renewed Point of Departure for Philosophical Anthropology” in Naturalism and Philosophical Anthropology: Nature, Life, and the Human between Transcendental and Empirical Perspectives, (Honenberger, P. Ed) (2016) Palgrave Macmillan, pp171-182.
"Detachment and Compensation: Groundwork for a Metaphysics of Biosocial Becoming" (2014) Philosophy and Social Criticism 40:91-105.
"Moral Molecules, Modern Selves and Our 'Inner Tribe'" (2013) The Hedgehog Review 15 (1) Spring 2013, pp19-33.
“On nature and normativity: Normativity, teleology, and mechanism in biological explanation” 2012 (with Dan Nicholson) Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43:88-91.
“Is the Philosophy of Mechanism Philosophy Enough?” (2012) Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 43:164-172.
“Science, Normativity and Skill: Reviewing and Renewing the Anthropological Basis of Critical Theory” (with Vida Pavesich) (2011) Philosophy and Social Criticism 37:139-165.
"Detachment, Genomics, and the Nature of Being Human" (2009) in New Visions of Nature: Complexity and Authenticity, Drenthen, Keulartz, Proctor (Eds), Springer International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, pp 103-116.
"The Meanings of the Gene and the Future of the Phenotype "(2008) Genomics, Society and Policy 4:38-57.
"Contra Habermas and Towards a Critical Theory of Human Nature and the Question of Genetic Enhancement” (2007) New Formations 60:139-149.
"The Question of Questions: What is a Gene?" (2006) Journal of Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 27:535-540.
"Redundancy, Plasticity, and Detachment: the Implications of Comparative Genomics for Evolutionary Thinking"(2006) Philosophy of Science 73: 930-946.
"Darwinism, Dualism, and Biological Agency" (2005) Hösle, V. & Illies, C (Eds). Darwinism and Philosophy , Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, pp 349-364.
“Human Nature, the Genetic Fallacy and the Philosophy of Anthropogenesis” (2004) Jahrbuch 2004 of the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, ed. Jörn Rüsen, 111-122
“One, Two (Too?), Many Genes” (2003) The Quarterly Review of Biology 78:57-67.
“From Representational Preformationism to the Epigenesis of Openness to the World? Reflections on a New Vision of the Organism” (2002) in From Epigenesis to Epigenetics – The Genome in Context, Van Speybroeck, Van de Vijver, de Weale (Eds), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 981:219- 230.
“Deconstructing the Gene and Reconstructing Molecular Developmental Systems” (2001) Oyama, S.; Gray, R.; Griffiths, P. (Eds) Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution Cambridge MA: MIT, pp 85-98.
"Genes and Generalizations: Darden's Strategies and the Question of Context" (1995) Biology and Philosophy 10:483-488
Moss, L, Prakobphol A, Wiedmann TW, Fisher SJ, Damsky CH (1994) “Glycosylation of Human Trophoblast Integrins is Stage and Cell-Type Specific” Glycobiology 4:567-575.
"A Kernel of Truth? On the Reality of the Genetic Program" (1992) Philosophy of Science 1992. Volume 1: 335-348.
"Ethical Expertise and Moral Maturity: Conflict or Complement?" (1991) Philosophy and Social Criticism. 16:227-235.
Parry, G.; Beck, J.; Moss, L.; Bartley, J.; Ojakian, G. (1990) "Determination of apical membrane polarity in mammary epithelial cell cultures: the role of cell-cell, cell-substratum and membrane cytoskeleton interactions" Experimental Cell Research, 188:302-311.
Moss, L.; Greenwalt, D.; Cullen, B.; Dinh, N.; Ranken, R.; Parry, G. (1988) "Cell-to-cell heterogeneity in the expression of carbohydrate based epitopes of a mucin-type glycoprotein on the surface of human mammary carcinoma cells" Journal of Cell Physiology, 137:310-320.
Parry, G.; Cullen, B.; Kaetzel, C.; Kramer, R.; Moss, L. (1987) "Regulation of differentiation and polarized secretion in mammary epithelial cells in culture: extracellular matrix and membrane polarity influence" Journal of Cell Biology 105:2043-2051.
Reviews
Review: Helmuth Plessner, Levels of the Organic Life and the Human: An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2020.03.28.
Review: John H. Zammito, The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling (2018) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2018.08.39.
Review: Tim Lewens, Cultural Evolution: Conceptual Challenges (2016) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2016.05.06.
Review: Fred Dallmayr, Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory.(2012) Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2012.10.18)
“Context, context, context! A delicate empiricism for biotechnology.” Review of Beyond Biotechnology: The Barren Promise of Genetic Engineering, Craig Holdrege & Steve Talbott (2008) Nature Biotechnology 26:59-60.
“From Describing to Performing the ‘Socioethical’ Engagement with Systems Biology” (2007) The American Journal of Bioethics 7:86-87.
Review: Foundations of Biophilosophy, Martin Mahner & Mario Bunge (2000) The Quarterly Review of Biology, pp 57-67
Review: Timely Mediations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics, Leslie Paul Thiele (1997) Book notes, ETHICS 107:767-768.
Encyclopedia, Lexicon and other Short Entries
“Human Nature” Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (2019).
“Helmuth Plessner” Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (2019).
“Prague-a 21st century salon and beyond?” (2017) Philosophy and Social Criticism 44:284-285.
“Teleology” Encyclopedia of Systems Biology (2013)
"The Gene-For Confusion" (2001) The Philosopher's Magazine #13:46-47.
“Life, Origins of” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998)
Work in Progress
Moss is currently working on a monograph entitled Natural Detachment, The Hybrid Hominin and the Gambit of Geist: Groundwork for a new Philosophical Anthropology.