The following modules involved planning and presenting weekly seminars, marking formative essays, and assisting in lectures – including planning and presenting part of a lecture.  I also ran essay workshops for all the modules in which I was a teaching assistant. 

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• Free Will and Moral Responsibility (undergraduate 2nd Year). Dr Michael Garnett. This involves both online and in-person components. Topics included:

  • Causal determinism

  • Compatibilism and incompatibilism​

  • Frankfurt-style counterexamples

  • The manipulation problem

  • Responsibility and moral ignorance

  • Moral Luck

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• Ancient and Medieval Philosophy (undergraduate 2nd Year). Dr Sophia Connell. Topics included:​

  • Protagoras’ measure doctrine in Plato’s Theaetetus

  • Plato’s epistemology and the theory of Forms

  • Aristotle on knowledge of natural causes

  • Definitions of soul in Aristotle’s De Anima

  • Intellect and reasoning in Aristotle

  • Plotinus on the One and Intellect

  • Islamic philosophy on knowledge of the divine

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• Political Power (undergraduate 2nd year) Prof. Susan James. Topics included: 

  • Luke's Three dimensional View of Power​

  • Machiavelli and the power of the prince

  • Hobbes and Spinoza on power 

  • Marx's communist critique 

  • Foucault’s conception of power

  • The social imaginary

  • White Ignorance 

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• Aristotle’s Biology and Ethics (undergraduate 3rd year). Dr Sophia Connell. This involved assisting student 1-1 with their essay assignments. I also presented part of the lecture of Philippa Foot’s ethical naturalism. Topics included:

  • Aristotle on Virtue and the Nicomachean Ethics ​

  • Practical Reasoning and Practical Wisdom (Phronêsis)

  • Aristotle on Friendship 

  • Aristotle on Parenting, Nurturing and Political Activity

  • Grounding the virtues in modern neo-Aristotelianism