Courses Taught
Graduate |
Upper Division |
Lower Division |
| Ontology of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Introductory Symbolic Logic |
| Ontology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Elementary Logic |
| Free Will |
Philosophy of Religion |
Introduction to Philosophy |
| Modality |
Action Theory |
God, Evil, and Evidence |
| Universals and Particulars |
Space and Time |
Evolution and Religion |
| Skepticism |
Medieval Philosophy |
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| Contemporary Epistemology |
Seminar on Free Will |
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| Evil and Design |
Early Modern Philosophy |
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| Objects in Space and Time |
Seminar on Faith and Reason |
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| Truthmaking, Grounding, and Fundamentality |
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| Science and Religion (Tsinghua U., Beijing) |
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| Aspects of Responsibility (Central European U., Budapest) |
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PhD Thesis Director
James Edwards, "Justification as Intra-Personal Argumentation," 1999.
Karen Brown, "Unthought-of Possibilities and the Sources of Belief," 2002.
Brian Morton, "Ineffability and Self-Refutation: Non-Monotonic Logic in the Thought
of Pseudo-Dionysius, Sextus Empiricus, and the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita," 2003.
Jennifer Wolsing, "Free at Last: A Libertarian Defense of Free Will," 2005.
Kevin Kimble, "Phenomenal Character and Intentional Content: A Non-reductive Proposal," 2006.
Jonathan Jacobs, "Causal Powers: A Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysic," 2007.
Georg Theiner, "The Extended Mind," 2008.
Jaeho Lee, "Humean Supervenience and Humean Theories of Scientific Explanation," 2010.
John Ross Churchill, "Causal Exclusion and the Nature of the Mental," 2010.
Allen Gehring, "Truthmaker Theory and Its Applications," 2012
Undergraduate Thesis Director
Brian Sweeney, "'Common Sense' and the Theory of Knowledge," 1996.
Benjamin Singer, "Complete Liberation: The Sacred Biography of Tibetan Buddhist Master Gyalwang Lama Karma Lobsang," 1999.
Hong Yu Wong, "Making Sense of Multiple Realizability," 2001.
Paul Weaver, "A More Robust Understanding of Basicality," 2001.
Eric Charles, "Material Composition," 2005.
Matthew Laird, "The Evolution of Freedom," 2006.
Derrick Murphy, "The Problem of Universals," 2007.
Christopher Austin, "Essentialism," 2008.
Laura Frances Goins, "Faith and Sensibility," 2011
Michael Thomas, "Aristotle and Aquinas: Why Can't We Be Friends (with God)?," 2012