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    Courses in Durham, autumn term 2012 of academic year 2012-2013


    Undergraduate

    1) Knowledge and Reality; 

    Philosophy of Mind: Mind and Body/Free Will/Personal Identity

    Information here. 

    Lecture 1   Lecture 2   Lecture 3   Lecture 4   Lecture 5   Lecture 6   Lecture 7   Lecture 8   Lecture 9   Lecture 10


    2) Issues in Contemporary Ethics. Information here. 

    MA courses

    1) Aesthetics

    2) Ethics

    3) Philosophy of Mind

    Courses in Durham, autumn term 2011 of academic year 2011-2012.

    • Knowledge and Reality; Mind and Body/Free Will/Personal Identity, introductory level
      Metaethics section of upper level ethics course (Issues in Contemporary Ethics).


    Courses in Durham, spring term 2011

    • Knowledge and Reality; Mind and Body/Free Will/, introductory level

    • Materialisms section of upper level philosophy of mind course.

    Information here.

     

    Powerpoints: Mental Causation (can't get this link to work!, see Duo site), Kripke

    • MA seminars: Current Issues in Ethics.

    Seminar in Hebrew University Jerusalem, autumn 2010

    • I participated in a metaethics seminar run by David Enoch in Jerusalem, and a Hume seminar given by Ruti Weintraub in Tel Aviv University.

    Courses in Durham, academic year 2009-2010

    • Knowledge and Reality; Mind and Body/Free Will/Personal Identity, introductory level

    • Materialisms section of upper level philosophy of mind course.

    • Metaethics section of upper level ethics course (Issues in Contemporary Ethics).

    • MA seminars: Current Issues in Ethics.

    Courses in Durham, summer term 2009

    • Philosophy of mind: eliminativism. 

    Courses at Ohio State University, winter quarter 2009

    • Graduate seminar on normativity in moral philosophy and the philosophy of mind.

    • Upper Level undergraduate course on metaethics. 

    Courses in Durham in the academic years 2006-08

    • Materialisms section of upper level philosophy of mind course.

    • Metaethics section of upper level ethics course (Issues in Contemporary Ethics).

    • Nietzsche in the spring term

    • Knowledge and Reality; Mind and Body/Free Will, introductory level; spring term

    • MA seminars: Current Issues in Ethics.

    Course at Haifa: Autumn 2005

    Aesthetics

    Courses at Oxford University: 2002-2005

    • Lectures: Aesthetics

    • Tutorials and seminars: Ethics    

    • Tutorials:     Knowledge and Reality

    •                      Descartes

    •                      Aesthetics

    One student made me this wonderful thank-you card; and another student made me this wonderful thank-you card. I think that there is some common theme here.

    Courses at the University of Connecticut and at Brown University: 2001-2002 Session

    Graduate Course: Topics in Aesthetics and Metaethics. Here you can find an Outline of the course and the details of Topics and readings.

    Courses at Glasgow: 1999-2000 session

            1. Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind (Mind/body, Personal Identity).

            2. Introduction to Political Philosophy (Twentieth Century: Rawls, Nozick,

                 Communitarianism, Feminism).

     3. Metaphysics (Colour, Free Will, Truth, Modality): readings and notes

            can be found here: Metaphysic s Course Guide.

     4. Metaethics (Realism, Projectivism, Motivation, Dilemmas).

     5. Philosophy of Mind (Causation, Elimination, Simulation). Outline and

            readings can be found: Philosophy of Mind: Topics and Readings.