Teaching
Undergraduate
2022 - present Causation (Glasgow)
Level: 4
Role: Course Design, Lecturer
Content: A focus on difference making conceptions of causation from Lewis to Woodward, with applied components on Moral Philosophy, Safery Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Time Travel, and Mental Causation.
2020 - 2022 Metaphysics: What is There? (Glasgow)
Level: 2
Role: Component Design, Lecturer
Convener: Dr Jennifer Corns
Content: Sections on ontology, possible worlds, time, causation, and virtual ontology.
2016 Epistemology (Glasgow)
Level: 3
Role: Course Design, Lecturer
Convener: Dr. Chris Lindsay
Content: Tripartite analysis, Gettier objections, knowledge first, internalism/externalism, reliabilism, formal epistemology.
2016 Epistemology (Glasgow)
Level: 1
Role: Component Design, Lecturer
Convener: Dr. Robert Cowan
Content: Propositional knowledge, justification and truth, scepticism, and other minds.
2015: The Philosophy of Time Travel (Glasgow)
Level: 4
Role: Guest Lecturer
Convener: Stephanie Rennick
Content: Problems for counterfactual causation: transitivity, absences, overdetermination, pre-emption and context-sensitivity.
2015: The Philosophy of Mind (Glasgow)
Level: 3-4
Role: Tutor
Convener: Dr. Chris Lindsay
Content: Metaphysics of mind.
2014: Metaphysics (Glasgow)
Level: 3
Role: Guest Lecturer
Convener: Dr. Stephan Leuenberger
Content: Metaphysics, Causation, Counterfactuals (esp. redundant cause/overdetermination problems).
2012: Critical Thinking (Macquarie)
Level: 1
Role: Tutor / Teaching Assistant
Convener: Dr. Albert Atkin
Content: Validity, Soundness, Fallacies, Formalisation and Textual Analysis.
2011: Knowledge and the World (Glasgow)
Level: 1
Role: Tutor
Convener: Dr. Chris Lindsay
Content: Critical Thinking (Validity, Soundness, Fallacies, Formalisation and Textual Analysis) Descartes’ Meditations, Problems of Philosophy – Epistemic Scepticism, Free Will, God’s Existence, Mind-Body problem.
2010: Right and Wrong (Glasgow)
Level: 1
Role: Tutor
Convener: Dr. Richard King
Content: Plato’s Republic, Kantian Ethics, Consequentialism, Virtue Ethics, Justice and Punishment, Moral Problems – Abortion, Euthanasia, Animal Rights, Poverty.
Postgraduate
2020 - 2021 Metaphysics (Glasgow)
Level: MSc (Philosophy)
Role: Course Design and Lecturer
Content: Possible Worlds, Properties, Laws, Chance, Causation, Time, Virtual Ontology.
2019 -2022 Philosophy and Immersive Tech in Medicine (Glasgow)
Level: MSc (Anatomy)
Role: Guest lecturer
Content: Intro to technology, good use practice, ontological worries,
Convener: Prof. Paul Rea
2016 Epistemology (Glasgow)
Level: Masters
Role: Component Design, Lecturer
Convener: Dr. Gary Kemp
Content: Tripartite analysis, Gettier objections, scepticism
2016 Contrastivism (Hamburg)
Level: Postgraduate
Role: Course Design, Lecturer
Convener: Nathan Wildman
Content: Contrastivism in philosophy of language, epistemology and metaphysics, esp. the work of Jonathan Schaffer.
2015: Research methods (Glasgow)
Level: Postgraduate
Role: Guest Lecturer
Convener: Adam Reiger
Content: Causation in philosophy – problems and applications.
2014: The Philosophy of Mind (Glasgow)
Level: Masters - MSc
Role: Course Design, Lecturer
Convener: Professor Fiona Macpherson
Content: Metaphysics of mind, esp. mental causation, non- reductive physicalism, exclusion arguments, Emergentist theories of mind.