Teaching

Undergraduate

Advanced courses

  • Ethics | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: practical reason; consequentialism; deontology; virtue ethics; moral realism; cognitivism and non-cognitivism; naturalism and non-naturalism; the error theory; moral relativism; freedom and responsibility; equality, fairness, and desert; conscience, guilt, and shame.

  • Feminist Theory | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: sex and gender; intersectionality; trans feminism; standpoint epistemology; epistemic oppression; the politics of sex; queer feminism; pornography; feminism, capitalism, and reproduction; sex work; feminism and philosophy.

  • Hegel’s Phenomenology | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: the Phenomenology in context; sense-certainty; perception; force and understanding; the master-slave dialectic; stoicism, scepticism, and the unhappy consciousness; reason; spirit.

  • Knowledge and Reality | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: the analysis of knowledge, riddles of induction, modality, natural and social kinds.

  • Metaethics | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: what is morality?, cognitivism and non-cognitivism, the error theory, relativism, expressivism, quasi-realism, naturalist moral realism, non-naturalist moral realism.

  • The Philosophy of Wittgenstein | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: Russell’s theory of representation; the picture theory of representation; constants, propositions, and truth; the saying/showing distinction; Augustine’s conception of language; intentionality; rules and rule-following; grammar and necessity.

  • Post-Kantian Philosophy: Nietzsche | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: the slave revolt in morality; bad conscience; asceticism and nihilism; genealogy and the Genealogy.

  • Practical Ethics | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: TBD.

  • Theory of Politics | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: justice; liberty; equality; power; ideology; feminism; oppression; ideal and non-ideal theory.

  • Utilitarianism | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: utility, happiness, pleasure, and well-being; the ‘proof’ of utilitarianism; the integrity objection; justice and rights; forms of utilitarianism; interpreting Mill; the generation of desires.

Introductory courses

  • Moral Philosophy | University of Oxford

    • Topics covered: rule versus act utilitarianism; the nature of happiness; the possibility of a proof of utilitarianism; consequentialism and its rivals; is utilitarianism self-defeating?