Past Courses
Syllabus - Intro - 2013 Fall.docxIntro to Philosophy (Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, Kuhn)
Syllabus - Intro - 2015 Fall.docxIntro to Philosophy (no "white men")
Syllabus - Black Lives Matter.docxFirst-Year Seminar: Black Lives Matter (Coates, Baldwin, Ellison, Butler, Alexander, Chappelle)
Syllabus - FYS - The Persistence of Racism - Fall 2017.docxFirst-Year Seminar: The Persistence of Racism (Kendi)
Syllabus - Freedom and Responsibility 2018.docFreedom & Responsibility
Syllabus - Ancient Philosophy 2019 fall.docxAncient Philosophy (Plato & Aristotle)
Syllabus Intermediate Logic 2020.docIntermediate Logic (Smullyan, MacFarlane)
Syllabus - Racism - Maher.docRacism (focusing on anti-black racism in the U.S.A.)
Syllabus - Racism and Racial Injustice.docRacism & Racial Injustice (Blum, Anderson, Shelby)
Syllabus - Philosophy of Data - Spring 2022 - Maher .docPhilosophy of Data (Spring 2022, anchored in Godfrey-Smith's Theory and Reality)
Syllabus - Philosophy of Language 2016 fall.docxPhilosophy of Language (Lycan's and Miller's textbooks)
Syllabus - Language - 2014 spring - REVISED.docxPhilosophy of Language (Philosophy of language as first philosophy; animal communication)
Syllabus - Philosophy of Language 2009.docPhilosophy of Language (Word meaning, sentence meaning, speech acts, rule following)
Syllabus - Pittsburgh School.docxThe Pittsburgh School (Sellars, McDowell, Brandom, Haugeland)
Syllabus - The White Moderate 2017 fall.docxSenior Seminar: The White Moderate
Syllabus - The Biological Mind - 2023.docxSenior Seminar: The Biological Mind