UCD, second semester 2019. The Analytic Revolution
We consider the work of early analytic philosophers and their lasting influence, including Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap.
LMU, summer semester 2017. Insults, Lies, and Bullshit: Speech Acts and Content in the Philosophy of Language
This course approaches the philosophy of language through distinctively linguistic issues that arise from ethical discourse.
We will consider ethically significant speech acts like lying, consenting, and silencing; ethically significant words and phrases, like slurs and generalisations; and the language of ethics itself, including terms like ‘right’, ‘wrong’, and ‘murder’.
Module outline now available.
St Leonards School, 2013-2014. How do we know what people mean by the words they use?
This introduction to the philosophy of language was devised during my time as Associate Researcher at St Leonards and delivered to two classes of high-school students as part of the International Baccalaureate course Theory of Knowledge. We began with the naive schema S means that p iff S utters 'p' before amending the schema to accommodate context-sensitivity, implicature, and vagueness.
University of St Andrews, 2012-2016. Tutorials
Reasoning and Knowledge (Logic and Epistemology)
Reasoning (Informal logic and formal logic up to quantified natural deduction)
Formal and Philosophical Logic (formal logic including modal tableaux and non-classical logics; philosophy of logic)
Mind and Reality (Philosophy of Mind and Metaphysics)
Metaphysics and Science (metaphysics and philosophy of science)
Foundations of Western Philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Sceptics, and Epicureans)
Moral and Political Controversies (applied ethics and introduction to ethical theory)
Rationality and Action (Metaethics)