Teaching

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. 

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.