Courses

I've helped teach the following courses at MIT:

• The Ethics of Climate Change (Spring 2018)
• Moral Problems and the Good Life (Fall 2017)
• Justice (Spring 2017)
• Ethics (Fall 2016)
• ​Problems of Philosophy (Fall 2015)

During MIT's 2017 "Interim Activities Period" I taught a crash course in two common formal methods used in epistemology: probability and epistemic logic. The goal was to develop an intuitive understanding of these methods, as well as their potential applications and limitations. Here are the handouts for each day:

• Formal Methods in Epistemology: Probability
• Formal Methods in Epistemology: Epistemic Logic

Handouts

Here are some handouts I've made while giving (opinionated) presentations on a number of well-known papers/chapters.(Caveat: I no longer hold many of those opinions.)
Epistemology:

• Bikchandani et al. 1992, On Information Cascades
• Christensen 2010, "Higher-Order Evidence"
• Christensen 2010, "Rational Reflection"
• DeRose 1995, "Solving the Skeptical Problem"
• Horowitz 2014, "Epistemic Akrasia"
• Joyce 1998, "A Non-Pragmatic Vindication of Probabilism"
• Kelly 2008, On Biased Assimilation of Evidence
• Konek & Levinstein 2018, "The Foundations of Epistemic Decision Theory"
• Moore 1960, "A Proof of the External World"

Language/Logic

• Frege against the formalists (Grundgesetze, Frege-Hilbert correspondence)
• Grice 1957, "Meaning"
• Quine 1960, Word and Object (Ch. 1)
• Stalnaker 1984, Inquiry (Ch. 1)
• Wright 1997, "On the Philosophical Significance of Frege's Theorem"

Metaphysics/Philosophy of Science

• Carnap 1950, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology"
• Goodman 1955, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (The New Riddle)
• Hosiasson-Lindenbaum 1940, "On Confirmation"
• Kripke 1980, Naming & Necessity (Necessity vs. A Priority)

Ethics:

• Anscombe 1957, Intention
• Barcan Marcus 1980, "Moral Dilemmas and Consistency"
• Gibbard 1990, Wise Choices, Apt Feelings (Ch. 1)
• Moore 1903, Principia Ethica (Ch. 1)

Writing

In 2012 I interviewed professors on how they wanted their undergraduates to write philosophy papers. The results are distilled into this handout, which I've found helpful in teaching undergraduates:

• How to Write Philosophy Papers