I have a great passion for teaching. I enjoy the challenge of making the inscrutable scrutable for students of different abilities and learning styles. To me, as a teacher my job is not just to communicate a list of facts, but to enrich the intellectual lives of complex human beings with non-intellectual needs. I work hard to learn about my students as people so that I can better support them in their learning. Fostering this kind of relationship with my students helps to create a safe space in the supervision, seminar, or lecture room where they can feel free to seek the support they need, whether that support is academic or pastoral in nature. In my experience, when students feel safe and secure in this way, they are much better able to engage with my lessons and with the course content more generally.
I have enjoyed implementing my teaching philosophy in a variety of classroom settings, including lectures, discussion groups, and one-to-one supervisions. I have primarily taught Analytic Philosophy, but have experience teaching across a range of social science and humanities disciplines. See below for a list of my classes, and to download associated supplementary material. For more details of my teaching experience, see my CV. For past and current lecture/class materials, click here. At Cambridge? Here are some thoughts related to Week Five. |
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MA Teaching
Causation and Manipulation University of Leeds (2017-2018) Undergraduate Supervising University of Cambridge (2012-16, 2018-19) (Click the subject title to view associated Faculty readings lists) Logic Classes University of Cambridge (2012-15, 2018-19) (Follow the links below to view handouts) A Guide to Truth-Functional Logic Proof Rules (download) A Guide to First-Order Logic Proof Rules (download) Introduction to Probability (download) Essay-Writing Workshop
University of Cambridge (2013) Details of workshop and handbook can be found here. |
Undergraduate Lectures
Introduction to Philosophy Critical Thinking and Logic Mind, Self and World Contemporary Philosophy of the Person Philosophy and Technology Science and Religion Leeds Trinity University (2019-2022) IA Personal Identity IA/IB Causal Theory of Names IB The Nature of Knowledge IB Sources of Knowledge IBScepticism IB Metaphysics of Modality II Time II Persons University of Cambridge (2018-19) Epistemology: Knowledge and Justification University of Leeds (2017) Causation (1A Metaphysics) University of Cambridge (2014) Discussion Group
University of Cambridge (2012-2015) Sample: Questions for guided reading of J. S. Mill (download) |