Teaching

I taught philosophy for a bit, at Cambridge and the LSE. (I still give some supervisions at Cambridge; it's not *that* far away.)

My first lectures, in October 2012 (my goodness), were an introduction to philosophy of mind for third-year natural-science students doing HPS. Still a reasonable introduction, I think; there have been developments, of course, but we haven't all started being Aristotelians about the mind or anything like that. The slides and readings can be had here (public Dropbox link).

I also lectured on first-person thought and (for one season, while Tim Crane was off doing something more interesting) intentionality for the Cambridge Philosophy third-year philosophy of mind paper.  Those topics are a bit more niche, and I doubt anyone is looking for an introduction to them here, but feel free to email me and prove me wrong.

Finally, for a couple of years in the late teens I taught a survey/introduction to cognitive science as a 300/400 level course at the LSE.  The topics ranged from philosophy of mind to behavioural psychology, animal minds and artificial intelligence. Some of the behavioural psychology details have since turned out not to, ah, replicate too well. But the broader moral is still important imo. We are imperfectly rational deliberators (no kidding *looks around*); and the imperfections aren't just noise around a rational ideal, they're revealing of the way our evolved, finite minds work. If you're curious, here's another public Dropbox link to the slides.

Old Courses