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  
Philosophy of Religion Seminar on Free Will  
 

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.