Recent Courses

Introductory Teaching

PHIL 115: Skepticism, God, and Ethical Dilemmas 
An introductory undergraduate course in philosophy; topics include responses to skepticism, attempts to prove or disprove God’s existence, and the Trolley Problem. 
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PHIL 210: Logic 
A first course in propositional and quantificational logic using Barwise et. al., Language, Proof, and Logic. 
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Philosophy of Mathematics and Science

PHIL 236: Proof, Knowledge, and Understanding in Mathematics
Starting with Lakatos’ classic Proofs and Refutations, this course engages with several issues central to the methodology and practice of mathematics: mathematical proof, mathematical explanation, and the growth of mathematical knowledge.
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PHIL 251: Evidence, Objectivity, and Realism in the Sciences 
A course covering several central topics in the philosophy of science: the problem of demarcating the sciences from other endeavors; the nature of scientific evidence; and relationships between scientific values and scientific objectivity. 
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Early Modern Philosophy and Kant

PHIL 272: Early Modern Philosophy
A detailed study of some key philosophical texts of the early modern era: Descartes’ Meditations, Conway’s Principles, Leibniz’s Discourse on Metaphysics, and Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.
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PHIL 273: Kant’s Metaphysics 
An undergraduate course on the initial segment of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason including the Transcendental Aesthetic and Transcendental Analytic. 
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