TEACHING

Harvard University

At the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, I supervise students for the

  • Capstone Project on the Master of Science in Bioethics

At the John F. Kennedy School of Government, I taught two seminars:

  • Brain Washing and Mind Control: From the Cold War to Today
  • Brain-Computer Interfaces: The Latest Threat to Human Rights?

University of Cambridge

At the University of Cambridge, I supervised undergraduate students for several of the university’s constituent colleges and postgraduate students taking the MPhil in Philosophy for the Faculty of Philosophy. For the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, I supervised dissertations and acted as assessor of both undergraduate and postgraduate work on the MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine as well as on the MPhil in Health, Medicine and Society. I also examined essays and dissertations for the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence’s two postgraduate courses, the MPhil in Ethics of AI, Data, and Algorithms and the MSt in AI Ethics and Society. Furthermore, I supervised student projects for the Laidlaw Leadership and Research Programme and the Pembroke Cambridge International Programme. At the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, I taught students on the pre-clinical part of Cambridge’s Medicine Course in medical ethics.

 

I regularly supervised for the following modules:

  • Ethics: Early Modern Moral Philosophy, Helping and Harming, Moral Psychology, Normative Powers, Virtue Ethics
  • Metaphysics: Causation, Free will, Induction and Miracles, Mind and Matter, Personal Identity
  • Philosophy of Mind: Consciousness, Epistemology of Mind, Intentionality and Mental Representation, Mental Faculties
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics: Equality of Opportunity, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Normative Ethics, Political Obligation and Authority
  • Political Philosophy: Democracy, Equality and Egalitarianism, Liberty and Liberalism, Property
  • Social and Ethical Context of Health & Illness: Professionalism in Medicine, Justice in Healthcare, Ethics in Medical Research

Technical University of Munich

For the TUM School of Medicine, I co-supervise two PhD dissertations in medical ethics:

  • E. M. Schmolke: Ethische Analyse von Leitlinien zur Verteilung knapper intensivmedizinischer Ressourcen während einer Pandemie und deren Umsetzung aus Perspektive potentieller Anwender in Deutschland
  • K. Wagner: The Ethical Appropriateness of the Current Use and Regulation of Homeopathy in Germany

University of St Andrews

For the Department of Philosophy, I taught on two modules:

  • Honours Prize Seminar Series The Metaphysics and Morality of Death
  • Sub-Honours Module The Enlightenment