Below you will find syllabi and other documents from some courses that I have taught, mostly between 2010 and 2022.
I owe a large debt to Professor Fred Feldman for my approach to teaching undergraduate students. I borrowed extensively from his syllabus for Introduction to Philosophy when I first taught it in 1994. I also borrowed extensively from his handouts concerning arguments, and argument extraction, explanation, and evaluation. I gradually revised, and expanded on, the latter handouts in subsequent years. Below you will find some later versions, both for Intro and for more advanced courses.
Fall 2022
PHI 215, Symbolic Logic (links coming soon)
Syllabus
PHI 328, Philosophy of Language (links coming soon)
Argument Extraction, Explanation, and Evaluation
Sample Paper Topic and Sample Paper
Some Central Claims of Frege's Theory of Sense and Reference
Russell on Acquaintance
Spring 2022
PHI 519, Modal Logic
Fall 2021
PHI 215, Symbolic Logic
PHI 320, Philosophy of Mind
Argument Extraction, Explanation, and Evaluation
Sample Paper Topic and Sample Paper
Spring 2021
PHI 528, Topics in Philosophy of Language: Attitudes and Attitude Ascriptions
Fall 2020
PHI 215, Symbolic Logic
PHI 328, Philosophy of Language
Spring 2020
PHI 519, Modal Logic
Fall 2019
PHI 215, Symbolic Logic
PHI 320, Philosophy of Mind
Fall 2018
PHI 579, Special Topics: Expressivism in Ethics (co-taught with Alex King)
PHI 328, Philosophy of Language
Spring 2018
PHI 528, Topics in Philosophy of Language: Attitude Ascriptions
Fall 2017
PHI 320, Philosophy of Mind
Fall 2016
PHI 101, Introduction to Philosophy
Argument Extraction, Explanation, and Evaluation
Arguments for Practicing Extraction, Explanation, and Evaluation
Sample Paper with Sample Paper Assignment
Fall 2015
PHI 528, Topics in Philosophy of Language: Indexicals and Indexical Attitudes
Spring 2013
PHI 528, Topics in Philosophy of Language: Invariantism, Contextualism, and Relativism
Spring 2012
PHI 528, Topics in Philosophy of Language: Questions, Answers, and Attitudes
Spring 2010
PHI 528, Topics in Philosophy of Language: Empty Terms and Fictional Characters
All courses below were taught at the University of Rochester
Fall 2008
Philosophy 528, Philosophy of Language: Knowing That, Knowing How, and Knowing Who
Fall 2007
Philosophy 515, Qualia and Representation (co-taught with Alyssa Ney)
Fall 2006
Philosophy 516, Fiction, Myth, and General Terms
Fall 2005
Philosophy 516, Knowing That, Knowing Who, and Context