Teaching
Teaching experience
Graduate Seminars
- Vices and Crimes in Kant's Moral Philosophy [syllabus]
(Groningen)
- Kant's System of Duties [syllabus] (Oxford)
Weeks 1&2: Introducing the Metaphysics of Morals
Week 3: Duties of Right to Others
Week 4: Duties of Right to Oneself
Week 5: Duties of Virtue to Oneself
Week 6: Duties of Virtue to Others
Week 7: The Duty to Leave the State of Nature
Week 8: The Right of Nations and Cosmopolitan Right
- Foundations in Political Theory (Oxford)
Undergraduate Lectures
- Themes in Kant’s Moral and Political Philosophy (Oxford):
Lecture 1: Right and ethics
Lecture 2: The state of nature
Lecture 3: Citizenship
Lecture 4: Punishment
Tutorials
- Theory of Politics [sample reading list] (Oxford)
- Introduction to Political Theory (LSE)
- Introduction to the Theory of Politics (Oxford)
- Kant (Oxford)
- Kant's ethics and political philosophy [sample reading list] (Oxford)
- Ethics [sample reading list] (Oxford)
- Early Modern Philosophy [sample reading list] (Oxford)
- Leibniz (Oxford)
- Introduction to Ethics (Toronto)
- Political Philosophy (Toronto)
- Reason and Truth (Toronto)
- Introduction to Philosophy (Toronto)
Grading only
- General Philosophy (Oxford)
- Bioethics (Toronto)
- Global Bioethics (Toronto)
Sample undergraduate class slides
Written for Introduction to Political Theory
LSE, 2021-2022
Fall term week 1: No class.
Fall term week 2: Introduction to GV100 classes
Fall term week 3: Plato on justice
Fall term week 4: Aristotle's politics
Fall term week 5: Machiavelli on the nature of politics
Fall term week 6: Reading week
Fall term week 7: Hobbes and the state of nature
Fall term week 8: Hobbes and sovereignty
Fall term week 9: Locke, property and state authority
Fall term week 10: No slides due to strike action
Fall term week 11: Rousseau's social contract
Winter term week 1: Kant on perpetual peace
Winter term week 2: Kant on cosmopolitanism and race
Winter term week 3: The Federalist Papers
Winter term week 4: Mill: On liberty, feminism, democracy
Winter term week 5: No slides due to strike action
Winter term week 6: Reading week
Winter term week 7: Marx on alienation
Winter term week 8: Marx on historical materialism
Winter term week 9: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morality
Winter term week 10: Arendt on totalitarianism
Winter term week 11: No slides due to strike action.
