Teaching
Helpful Links for Students
Helpful tips for making meaningful contributions in a philosophy seminar.
This outlines a general reading/note-taking strategy for philosophy texts, which can often be very dense. Worth a look if you find that you're not absorbing much from your readings.
This will give you an idea of what is expected in a higher-level undergraduate philosophy course.
A fabulous collection of short animated videos on a wide range of philosophical topics, narrated by professional philosophers who know their stuff.
A growing collection of 1000-word introductory articles on a range of philosophical topics.
A searchable archive of philosophy articles. Very useful when doing research on a specific philosophical topic.
A pretty good first stop when you want to learn about an unfamiliar philosophical topic. But if you want the gold standard for philosophy encyclopedias, you should probably check out...
A professional-caliber online encyclopedia with entries for pretty much every philosophical topic imaginable. Warning: the authors of these articles often presume a philosophical background and a substantial attention-span.
Courses
Purdue University
Fall 2022
PHIL 110 - The Big Questions: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 435 - Philosophy of Mind
York University
PHIL 1000 - Introduction to Philosophy (2021-22)
Year-long introductory survey covering classic and contemporary topics in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics.
COGS 4901 - Honours Seminar in Cognitive Science (2020-21)
Capstone seminar for Honours Cognitive Science Program at York University. Course theme: "Culture and Cognition." Topics include the study of cultural variability in cognition, cultural behavior in non-human animals, the evolution and cognitive underpinnings of cultural learning, linguistic relativism, moral cognition, and intergroup bias. Integrated with York's Cognitive Science Speaker Series.
University of Toronto
PHL 415 - Philosophy and Social Cognition (2018)
Advanced undergraduate seminar on contemporary debates about theory of mind in both human and non-human animals.
University of Rochester
PHL 300: Seminar for Majors (2018)
Capstone seminar for philosophy majors and minors. Topics include moral responsibility, responsibility for implicit bias, sentimentalism versus rationalism, psychopathy, and dual-process accounts of moral judgment.
PHL127: Know Thyself: Wisdom Through Cognitive Science (2017)
In this course, students learn about various distortions that may affect reasoning, as well as strategies to avoid these cognitive pitfalls. Topics include introspection, affect and decision-making, emotion regulation, self-control, mindfulness, implicit theories of personality, and implicit bias.
University of Maryland
PHIL408P: Moral Psychology (2017)
A course on the nature of moral reasoning. Topics include psychological egoism and altruism, dual-process theories of moral judgment, the value of empathy, the existence of moral character, the reliability of moral intuitions, and the moral consequences of implicit bias.
PHIL 209B: Investigating Darwin's Dangerous Idea (2015)
This course introduces students to core concepts in the philosophy of science, meta-ethics, philosophy of religion while learning about Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
PHIL 408I: Human Nature (2014)
This course covers issues in philosophy of biology, philosophy of psychology, general philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and the philosophy of race. It explores potential answers to two questions: "Is there such a thing as a universal human nature?" and "Are there groups of human beings with their own unique natures?"