TEACHING

In Cambridge, I supervise undergraduate students for several constituent colleges of the university, and postgraduate students (MPhil in Philosophy) for the Faculty of Philosophy. I act as an assessor for both undergraduate and postgraduate work (MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine) for the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. For the Faculty of Biology, I supervise students and asses work in the pre-clinical part of Cambridge’s Medicine Course.

 

For the TUM School of Medicine at the Technical University of Munich, I co-supervise two PhD students.

I supervise 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
  • Social and Ethical Context of Health & Illness: Professionalism in Medicine, Justice in Healthcare, Ethics in Medical Research

Ethics

Early Modern Moral Philosophy

  • voluntarism
  • rationalism
  • sentimentalism

Helping and Harming

  • demands of beneficence
  • aggregation
  • contractualism

Moral Psychology

  • moral motivation
  • moral learning
  • practical reasoning

Normative Powers

  • consent
  • promise

Virtue Ethics

  • doctrine of the mean
  • reason and habits
  • social psychology

Metaphysics

Causation

  • David Hume’s view of causation
  • causes and events
  • conditions and counterfactuals

Free Will

  • freedom and determinism
  • fatalism

Induction and Miracles

  • inductive inferences
  • deductive inferences
  • natural laws
  • statistical likelihood and coincidence

Mind and Matter

  • monism and dualism
  • physicalism and functionalism
  • mental states and mental causation
  • qualia

Personal Identity

  • biological and psychological views
  • synchronic and diachronic persistence
  • consciousness and memories

Philosophy of Mind

Epistemology of Mind

  • knowledge of one’s own mind
  • knowledge of other minds

Consciousness

  • varieties of consciousness
  • intentional theories of consciousness
  • the explanatory gap
  • the unity of consciousness

Intentionality and Mental Representation

  • theories of content
  • externalism and internalism
  • perception and belief

Mental Faculties

  • intention and the will
  • imagination
  • desire

Political Philosophy and Ethics

Equality of Opportunity

  • varieties of equality of opportunity
  • justifications and controversy
  • positive discrimination

Metaethics

  • fact and value
  • objectivity and subjectivity

Moral Psychology

  • egoism and altruism
  • empathy
  • cognitive and affective attitudes

Normative Ethics

  • consequentialism
  • deontology
  • virtue ethics

Political Obligation and Authority

  • classical social contract theory
  • natural duty and fair play theory
  • anarchism

Social and Ethical Context of Health & Illness

Professionalism in Medicine

  • professional standards and best practice
  • consent, confidentiality, and duty of candour
  • trust, integrity, honesty, and accountability

Justice in Healthcare

  • allocation of healthcare resources
  • local, national, and global priorities
  • social determinants of health

Ethics in Medical Research

  • trust and integrity
  • research involving children and vulnerable individuals
  • ethics-committee approval