As Lecturer:
2020
What We Owe to Each Other (B.A.) LMU Munich. Do we owe it to each other to help those in need? Do we owe it to each other never to lie? Do we owe it to each other to keep our promises? If so, why? And what grounds these obligations in the interpersonal sphere? The seminar seeks to investigate these questions and in doing so provides an overview of the most important normative and meta-ethical positions within the context of interpersonal morality. Readings include: Singer, Foot, Thomson, Scanlon, Darwall, Taurek, O’Neill, Korsgaard.
2019
John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (B.A.) LMU Munich. How and according to which principles must a just and well-ordered society be structured? In answering this question, this course offers an extensive overview of Rawls’s A Theory of Justice and engages with relevant debates in recent moral- and political philosophy. Readings include: Rawls, Cohen, Hampton, Sandel, Muldoon.
Dignity, Respect, and Recognition (B.A.) LMU Munich. This course investigates the prominent place of the concepts of dignity, respect, and recognition within the domain of interpersonal morality and pays particular attention to the relational nature of each of the concepts. Readings include: Margalit, Rousseau, Appiah, Kant, Darwall, Feinberg.
Moral Contractualism (B.A.) LMU Munich. This course offers an introduction to the theory of moral contractualism. Readings include: Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Gauthier, Rawls, Scanlon, Darwall, Parfit.
2018
Human Being and Citizen (2nd and 3rd year B.A.) University College London. This course focuses on what it means to be a person and what it means to be a citizen. It will do so by engaging closely with the liberal contractualist tradition in political- and moral philosophy. Readings include: Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Rawls, Scanlon, Darwall.
Lectures on Topics in Political Philosophy (1st year B.A., Philosophy&EISPS), University College London, (1) Authority, (2) Democracy, (3) Global Justice, (4) Liberal Egalitarianism, (5) Equality of Opportunity and Private Education, (6) Civil Disobedience.
As Teaching Assistant:
2018
Introduction to Political Philosophy (1st year B.A.) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Han van Wietmarschen, University College London. This course introduces students to political philosophy by investigating three large sets of questions about justice and the importance of liberty and equality for a just society. Readings include: Bentham, Mill, Nozick, Rawls, G.A. Cohen, etc.
Responsibility, Luck, and Excuses (3rd year B.A.) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Ulrike Heuer, University College London, Spring Term. This module explores theories of responsibility in attempting to account for the grounds and the limits of what we are responsible for. In doing so the module will examine distinct conceptions of responsibility and some fundamental challenges that arise in relation to it. Reading include: P.F. Strawson, Watson, Smith, Zimmerman, Scanlon, Wolf, Wallace, Frankfurt, Williams, Nagel.
2017
Ethics. (2nd year B.A.) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Douglas Lavin, University College London, Spring Term. Survey of central questions and concepts of recent ethical theory. Topics include: the nature of the good, egoism, utilitarian accounts of right and wrong action, virtue (esp. justice and benevolence), equality, partiality and impartiality, moral luck. Readings include: Plato, Williams, Nagel, Parfit, Rawls, Mill, Butler, Singer, Foot, Feinberg, etc.
2016
Introduction to Moral Philosophy. (1st year B.A.) Teaching Assistant to Prof. Mark Kalderon, University College London, Spring Term. Introduction to moral philosophy through the examination of key historical texts. Readings include: Hume, Kant.
History of Political Philosophy. (2nd year B.A.) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Sarah Fine, King’s College London, Spring Term. Survey of five key historical texts and central concepts and debates in political philosophy. Readings include: Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Mill, Marx.
2015
Political Philosophy: Theories of Justice. (2nd year B.A.) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Andrea Sangiovanni, King’s College London, Autumn Term. This module focuses on two major areas within any fully-fledged theory of justice, freedom and global justice. Readings include: Berlin, Taylor, Carter, Pettit, Skinner, Christman, Rawls, Nagel, Beitz, D. Miller, Risse, Caney, etc.
Social Epistemology. (3rd year B.A./M.A.) Teaching Assistant to Dr. Han van Wietmarschen. University College London, Autumn Term. Advanced course investigating epistemological questions concerning the proper response to the beliefs of others. Particular issues include disagreement, group belief and epistemic injustice. Readings include: Christensen, Elga, Kelly, Goldman, Bratman, Gilbert, Fricker, etc.
Texts and Debates: Equality. (1st year B.A.) Course Convenor, University College London Spring Term. Introduction to central contemporary readings and important concepts and debates surrounding the topic of equality. Readings include: Williams, Parfit, Rawls, Nozick, Scanlon, Neuhouser, Sen, G.A. Cohen, J. Wolff, etc.
2014
Introduction to the History of Philosophy I. (1st year B.A.) Ancient Philosophy. Teaching Assistant to Dr. Fiona Leigh, University College London Autumn Term. Introductorty course about the central areas of philosophical enquiry in the Western philosophical tradition by way of reading classical Greek philosophy. Readings include: Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, etc.