Courses Taught
Graduate |
Upper Division |
Lower Division |
| Ontology of Mind |
Metaphysics |
Introductory Symbolic Logic |
| Ontology |
Philosophy of Mind |
Elementary Logic |
| Free Will |
Medieval Philosophy |
Introduction to Philosophy |
| Modality |
Action Theory |
Philosophy and Its Problems |
| Skepticism |
Philosophy of Religion |
God, Evil, and Evidence |
| Epistemology |
Early Modern Philosophy |
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| Philosophy of Religion |
Seminar on Free Will |
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PhD Thesis Director
James Edwards, "Justification as Intra-Personal Argumentation," defended 1999.
Karen Brown, "Unthought-of Possibilities and the Sources of Belief," defended 2002.
Brian Morton, "Ineffability and Self-Refutation: Non-Monotonic Logic in the Thought
of Pseudo-Dionysius, Sextus Empiricus, and the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita," defended 2003.
Jennifer Wolsing, "Free at Last: A Libertarian Defense of Free Will," defended 2005.
Kevin Kimble, "Phenomenal Character and Intentional Content: A Non-reductive Proposal," defended 2006.
Jonathan Jacobs, "Causal Powers: A Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysic," defended 2007.
Georg Theiner, "The Extended Mind," to be defended in April 2008.
Jaeho Lee, "Humean Supervenience and Humean Theories of Scientific Explanation," in progress.
John Ross Churchill, "Causal Exclusion and the Nature of the Mental," in progress.
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.