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Teaching

I regularly teach undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy, especially in the philosophy of language and metaphysics. Recent Seminars have focused on the nature and value of facts, social and political aspects of the philosophy of language, action theory and moral psychology, and Women Philosophers of the Lvov-Warsaw School.

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Spring (July 2026 - October 2026)

  • No teaching

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Previous Courses

​at the University of Waikato​

  • PHILO 102: Introduction to Logic (2024B [w/ Stephanie Gibbons], 2018B)

  • PHILO 103: Critical Reasoning (2017A [w/ Justine Kingsbury], 2016A [w/ Stephanie Gibbons])

  • PHILO 150: Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy (2016B [w/ Dan Weijers], 2022B, 2023B)

  • PHILO 204: Wisdom, Language, and Communication (2023A, 2022B, 2021A, 2019A, 2018A, 2017S)

  • PHILO 204: Lying and Fake News in Polarised Communities (2024A)

  • PHILO204: Liars, Frauds, and Fake News (2025H, 2026H)

  • PHILO 208: Reason, Science, and Pseudoscience (2016A [w/ Justine Kingsbury], 2020B)

  • PHILO 222: Possible Worlds (2017A [w/ Catherine Legg])

  • PHILO 250: Knowledge and Reality (2016A [w/ Stephanie Gibbons])

  • PHILO 304: Meaning, Understanding, and Truth (2020B, 2022A [w/ Jeremy Wyatt]

  • PHILO 304: Truth, Bullshit, and the Global Community (2024A, 2026A [w/ Jeremy Wyatt])

  • PHILO 309: Ethical Theory (2017B [w/ Liezl van Zyl])

  • PHILO 350: Recent Analytical Philosophy (2016B [w/ Cathy Legg], 2018B)

  • PHILO355: Fundamental Structure of the World (2022A)

    Graduate level:

  • PHILO 534: Seminar on Philosophy of Language (2020B, 2022A, 2024A, 2026A [w/ Jeremy Wyatt]) 

  • PHILO 545: Seminar on Aesthetics (2018B [w/ Justine Kingsbury & Liezl van Zyl])

  • PHILO 588: Foundations of Philosophical Research (2019A, 2021A, 2023A, 2024A, 2025B, 2026A)

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at other universities

​Introductory Courses

  • Introduction to Philosophy (32 sections)

  • Introduction to Logic (15 sections)

  • Intellectual Community in Philosophy (Autumn 2008)
     

Metaphysics

  • Metaphysics (Spring 2014)

  • Metaphysics of Race (Summer 2012)

  • Computers and Culture (Spring 2011)

  • Death and the Meaning of Life (Summer 2013, Summer 2014)

  • Philosophy of Western Religion (Spring 2007)

  • Philosophy of Eastern Religion (Spring 2008)

  • Seminar: Philosophy of Mind (Spring 2013)

  • Seminar: The Nature of Truth (Autumn 2013)

  • Seminar: Metaphysics and the Structure of Action (Spring 2013)
     

Epistemology

  • Philosophy of Science (Autumn 2013, Autumn 2012)

  • Epistemology (Autumn 2014)

  • Seminar: Brandom's Making It Explicit (Summer 2011)
     

Ethics

  • Business Ethics (Autumn 2015)

  • Natural Resource Ethics (Spring 2013)

  • Ethics for Security Professionals (Spring 2015 - Spring 2025)

  • Moral Psychology and Neuroethics (Summer 2009)

  • Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Ethical Problems (Summer 2005)
     

Logic

  • Critical Reasoning (including Honours sections; 11 sections)

  • Symbolic Logic (Summer 2003, Summer 2004, Summer 2005, Spring 2013)
     

History of Philosophy

  • Existentialism (Autumn 2007)

  • Modern Philosophy (Spring 2014)

  • Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein (Summer 2010)

  • Women Philosophers of the Lvov-Warsaw School: Language, Truth and Logic 1895-1939 (Autumn 2025)
     

Philosophical Methods

  • Seminar: Experimental Philosophy (Spring 2009)

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