Teaching

Some useful links & course material: 

Jim Pryor's Guidelines on Reading Philosophy

Jim Pryor's Guidelines on Writing a Philosophy Paper

Spring 2011, UCL, Module PHIL1017 Syllabus

Autumn 2017, Leiden University, Course: Logic: Syllabus

Spring 2018, Leiden University, Course: Truth and Metaphysics (Waarheid en Metafysica), taught in Dutch, syllabus is first in Dutch, but the week-by-week course reading list is in English: Syllabus


Past and Current Teaching Experience

2023-present: United Arab Emirates University, Philosophy section, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Assistant Professor; 4/4 teaching

   Courses taught: 

2020-2023: Peking University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Assistant Professor; 1/1.5 teaching

   Courses taught: 

           1. Philosophical Research and Writing (i.e. Graduate, PhD & MA, Pro-seminar) (Spring 2020) 

    2. Introduction to Philosophy (BA, for students who are not philosophy majors, co-taught with Drs. Schönherr and Sunday-Grève, Autumn 2021)

    3. Philosophy of Language and Reality (BA/MA/PhD, Autumn 2021; also taught a BA version of the course at an intense summer course at Sichuan University in July 2021)

    4. Subjects in Metaphysics: Metaontology (BA/MA/PhD; Spring 2021)

    5. Research in Theoretical Philosophy: Kripke, Essence, & Animalism (MA/PhD; co-taught with Dr. Schönherr; Spring 2021)

    6. Subjects in Metaphysics: the Metaphysics of Truth (MA/PhD; Spring 2022)

2018-2020: University of Amsterdam; Department of Philosophy, Lecturer in Philosophy (five-year position)

           Courses taught: 

           1. Metaphysics (2017-2018) (2018-2019)

           2. Theoretical Philosophy (lecture on Universals; 2017-2018)

           3. Text, Context, and Debate: Kripke (2018-2019), (2019-2020)

           4. Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives (MA; 2018-2019)

           5. Philosophy of the Humanities (BA, Literature, Literary Theory, and English majors; 2018-2019)

           6. Philosophy of Science (BA, Dutch Language and Culture majors; 2018-2019)

2015-2018: Leiden University, the Institute for Philosophy, (Temporary) Assistant Professor (University Lecturer,  one-year; Lecturer before then) in Theoretical Philosophy

           Courses taught: 

           1. Logic (2015-2016; BA-Plus; in Dutch) (2015-2016; BA-Standard, Minors, Elective; in Dutch) (2017-2018; BA-Plus; Dutch) (2017-2018; Standard, Minors, Elective; Dutch) (2017-2018; Global and Comparative Perspectives track; English)

           2. History of Philosophy: the Presocratics to 20th Century (2015-2016), (2016-2017)

           3. Taalfilosofie (Philosophy of Language), (2015-2016)

           4. Epistemology (2014-2015), (2016-2017), (2017-2018, both the Dutch and English versions)

           5. Introduction to Logic and Epistemology (2017-2018; Elective for Philosophy Minors and others, Leiden University College, Liberal Arts Program)

           6. Truth and Metaphysics (2017-2018; Advanced Seminar)

2009-2015: Heythrop College, University of London, Teaching Assistant, Lecturer, Examiner, & Module Coordinator 

           Courses taught:

           1. Knowledge and Reality (2010-present; Examiner 2013-2015)

           2. History of Modern Philosophy (2009-present; Examiner 2013-2015); Lectures on "Leibniz's Rationalist Project"

           3. Contemporary Issues in Philosophy (2012-2014)

           4. MA Philosophy of Mind and Psychology (2013); Lectures on "Functionalism and Consciousness"

           5. Philosophy of Mind and Psychology (2010-2011/2011-2012; half philosophy of psychology and mind, half psychoanalysis)

           6. Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (2010/2011)

           7. Epistemology (2009/2010)

           8. Philosophy of Psychology (2009/2010; Examiner 2010)

           9. Philosophical Texts Seminar (2009-2015; Course/Module Convenor); Descartes's Meditations and Hume's first Enquiry

           10. Philosophy of Language (Examiner, 2012)

           11. Mind and Psychology (2010-2011)

2007-2014: University College London, University of London, Tutor and Teaching Assistant

           Courses taught: 

           1. Practical Ethics (Autumn 2010)

           2. Tutorials Module (Autumn 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011); (see sample syllabus for details)

           3. Political Philosophy: Privacy (Pre-BA Summer Session, 2010)

           4. Empiricism (Advanced BA course, 2014, only the section "Hume on Causation and Induction")

           5. History of Early Modern Philosophy (BA course, 2014, only the section "The Emotions: Hume, Descartes, and the Stoics")