Course Materials
Here is a list of all the courses courses I have taught (from most basic to most advanced, roughly), with links to materials for most of them. (Click here to go back to the original, chronological, list.)
Honors Program 190: Freshman Honors Tutorial (Fall 2003)
—The Lives to Come: Genes, Medicine, and Ethics
Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument (Fall 2006)
—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices
Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument (Spring 2007)
—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices
Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument (Fall 2007)
—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices
Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument (Spring 2008)
—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices
Introduction to Logic (University of Pittsburgh, Spring 1999)
—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Michael Perloff
—Venn diagrams, truth tables, truth trees, deductions
Introduction to Philosophical Problems (University of Pittsburgh, Fall 1997)
—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Joe Camp
—existence of God, Descartes, empiricism, free will
Introduction to Ethics (Washington and Lee University, Fall 2001)
—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics
Introduction to Ethics (Washington and Lee University, Spring 2002)
—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2003)
—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2004)
—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2004)
—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2012)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2013)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2014)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2015)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2016)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2017)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Fall 2017)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics (Spring 2018)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Philosophy 161: Introduction to Ethics Honors (Spring 2003)
—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics
Philosophy 161: Introduction to Ethics Honors (Spring 2014)
—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics
Introduction to Ethics (University of Pittsburgh, Fall 1998)
—Locke, Kant, Huxley, Mill, Wright
Introduction to Ethics (University of Pittsburgh, Spring 1998)
—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Doug Patterson
—Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill
Introduction to Ethics (University of Pittsburgh, Fall 1996)
—discussion-section instructor for course taught by David Gauthier
—Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, Gauthier, Nietzsche, Ayer
Ethics of Life and Death (Washington and Lee University, Winter 2002)
—contemporary problems of bioethics and related areas of applied ethics
Political Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh, Summer 1997)
—Sophocles, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Melville, Mill, Marx and Engels
Political Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh, Spring 1997)
—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Michael Thompson
—Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx
Social Philosophy (University of Pittsburgh, Summer 1998)
—Hobbes, Rousseau, Huxley, Mill, Freud
Business Ethics (University of Pittsburgh, Summer 1999)
—contemporary problems and theoretical issues
Philosophy 499: Senior Essay (on The Problem of Pain, by C. S. Lewis) (Spring 2003)
Philosophy 499: Senior Essay (on theories of welfare) (Fall 2003)
Philosophy 499: Senior Essay (on Hume and Kant) (Fall 2003)
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2010)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2011)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2012)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2013)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2014)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2015)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2016)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2017)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research (Spring 2018)
—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues
Contemporary Political Philosophy (Distributive Justice) (Washington and Lee University, Fall 2001)
—Rawls, Nozick, Unger
Philosophy 555: Justice and Economic Systems (Spring 2003)
—Rawls, Nozick, Unger
Philosophy 555: Justice and Economic Systems (Spring 2004)
—Rawls, Nozick, Unger, Ehrenreich
Philosophy and Economics (Washington and Lee University, Winter 2002)
—rationality, morality, welfare, consequentialism, equality, game theory
Independent study on Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, by John Rawls (Washington and Lee University, Spring 2002)
Philosophy 600: Readings in Philosophy (on Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality) (Summer 2003)
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Fall 2005)
—decision theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Fall 2006)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Fall 2007)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Spring 2011)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Spring 2014)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Spring 2016)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Spring 2017)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Fall 2019)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory (Fall 2021)
—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory
Philosophy 670: Contemporary Ethical Theory (Fall 2009)
—meta-ethics and normative ethics
Philosophy 670: Contemporary Ethical Theory (Fall 2010)
—meta-ethics and normative ethics
Philosophy 672: History of Ethics (Fall 2002)
—Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill
Philosophy 672: History of Ethics (Fall 2003)
—Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill
Philosophy of Law (University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2000)
—theories of what law is, plus some problems of legal interpretation
Philosophy 674: Philosophy of Law (Spring 2005)
—theories of constitutional interpretation, principles of criminal and civil law, and recent movements such as law and economics and feminist critiques
Philosophy 800: Tutorial (Spring 2009)
—various topics, with emphasis on expository and argumentative writing
Philosophy 800: Tutorial (Spring 2010)
—various topics, with emphasis on expository and argumentative writing
Philosophy 820: Topics in the History of Philosophy: Mill’s Practical Philosophy (taught with Ann Cudd) (Spring 2007)
—Utilitarianism, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and other texts
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Contemporary Consequentialism (Fall 2002)
—Hare, Hooker, and others
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Consequentialism and Cost-Benefit Analysis (Fall 2011)
—Shaw, Sen, Adler & Posner, Wolff, and others
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Contemporary Consequentialism (Fall 2014)
—The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism and other readings
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Consequentialism and Legal Theory (Fall 2016)
—Shaw, Singer, Railton, Pettit, Kamm, Posner, Scalia, Dworkin, and Tamanaha
Philosophy 886: Topics in Applied Ethics: The Ethics of Genetic Technology (Spring 2006)
—Buchanan, Brock, Daniels, and Wikler’s From Chance to Choice, and other readings
Philosophy 900: Research in Philosophy (on consequentialism and desert)
—Shaw’s Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism, papers by Kagan, and other readings