Teaching

In the Fall 2026 term, Cosim teaches Introduction to Law, Liberty, and Justice (Phil 1040) as well as Social and Political Philosophy (Phil 3200). In Spring 2027, he will teach Introduction to Law, Liberty, and Justice as well as Philosophy of Law (Phil 3430).

Leading off 2026, Cosim Sayid taught the following at Washington and Lee and the Washington and Lee University School of Law:

LAW 758 -- Civil Disobedience, Pardon, and Punishment

LAW 782 -- Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law

PHI 348 -- Legal Ethics

In Fall 2025, Cosim taught LJS 101 -- Introduction to Law, Justice, and Society; and LAW 692 -- Interpretation in Law.

At Princeton, Cosim was head preceptor for the introductory sequence of courses in analytic philosophy -- Logic, Moral Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology. In Spring 2023, he taught Systematic Ethics with Michael Smith. Cosim was head preceptor for Introduction to Logic at Princeton for the Spring 2024 term; Cosim served simultaneously as preceptor in the upper-division course 'Freedom and Responsibility', with Gideon Rosen.

Prior to that, at York College of the City University of New York, Cosim gave instruction, when he was a grad student, in Cultural Diversity, Philosophy, and Political Science. York is a Thurgood Marshall College Fund member-school, where Cosim was also Quantitative Reasoning Fellow in the Department of Math and Computer Science, teaching and tutoring in math. Cosim was also while a PhD student an instructor in the Rutgers-Merck Summer Bioethics Institute at Rutgers-Newark (directed by Jeff Buechner) for college-bound urban youth in northern New Jersey.