Teaching

Current and recent courses

I teach a variety of courses primarily in philosophy of science and epistemology at the University of Groningen. These include:

  • Methods of PPE (Masters course). Semester 1b, 2021.
  • Philosophy of Climate Science (Masters course). Semester 1b, 2018 2019, 2020, semester 2a 2022.
  • Philosophy of the Natural Sciences (3rd year bachelors), Faculty of Philosophy. Semester 1b, 2015-6, Semester 2a, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022.
  • Philosophy of Science (2nd year bachelors). Semester 2b, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022.
  • American pragmatism (Masters course). Semester 2b, 2022.
  • Reliability, uncertainty and trust: topics in contemporary epistemology (Masters course). Semester 1a, 2020.
  • Honours College Philosophy of Science (2nd year bachelors). Semester 2a, 2018 and 2019.
  • Core Issues Research (Masters course), The problem of induction, Faculty of Philosophy. Semester 2b, 2016 and Semester 1a, 2016.
  • Reliability, uncertainty and trust (1st and 2nd year bachelors) Honours College and University College. Semester 1b, 2015-6.

Past teaching

  • Problem Solving: how science works. University of Pittsburgh. (Summer 2014, Fall 2012)
  • Principles of Scientific Reasoning. University of Pittsburgh. (Fall 2013)
  • Philosophy of Biology. Carnegie Mellon University. (Fall 2013, Spring 2012)

As a teaching assistant in philosophy, I taught the following courses:

  •  Problems of Philosophy 24.00, MIT with Professor Steve Yablo. (Fall 2006)
  • Thinking about Life 24.10, MIT, with Professor Denis Walsh. (Spring 2006)
  • Minds and Machines 24.09, MIT with Professor Alex Byrne. (Fall 2005)
  • What is the best way to live? 24.02, MIT, with Professor Caspar Hare. (Spring 2005)
  • Philosophy of Physics. Harvard, with Professor Peter Koellner. (Spring 2004)

I also taught courses in physics and mathematics:

  • Lecturer: third year quantum mechanics course. Dept. of Mathematics, University of Bristol. (2002)
  • Tutor: first year applied mathematics, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Bristol. (2001-2)
  • Organised and taught two week-long residential physics courses for final year high school students at Villiers Park (The Manor Charitable Trust), Oxfordshire. (2001 and 2002)
  • Tutor: second year kinetic theory and thermodynamics, Merton College, Oxford. (2000)
  • Tutor: second year thermodynamics and second year optics, Exeter College, Oxford. (1999)
  • Demonstrator in first year physics laboratories, University of Auckland. (1992-97)