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The syllabus for the introduction to critical thinking course I taught in 2024 can be downloaded by clicking the button below.
You can also download sample syllabi for an introductory course to Chinese philosophy and for a course in the philosophy of religion.
Teaching Experience
Main Instructor:
Summer 2024. Introduction to Critical Thinking. The University of British Columbia.
In this course, I took a practice-based approach. Each class focused on the close reading of one paper, which was analyzed in detail with students to identify and assess its theses and arguments. The topics varied from week to week and included arguments for and against God’s existence, arguments for the incompatibility of free will with determinism, and arguments for and against abortion.
Guest Lectures:
Sep 2024. Introduction to Confucius and the Analects. Course: Foundations of Chinese Thought (UBC). Main instructor: Edward Slingerland.
Jan 2024. Self and Consciousness in the Upanishads. Course Philosophical Wisdom of Early India (UBC). Main instructor: Emily Lawson.
Jun 2023. Buddhism, Daoism, and Theism. Course: Philosophy of Religion (UBC). Main instructor: Anders Kraal.
Apr 2023. Buddhism and Theism. Course: Philosophy of Religion (UBC). Main instructor: Anders Kraal.
Oct 2022. Plantinga of Warrant and Christian Belief. Course: Philosophy of Religion (UBC). Main instructor: Evan Thompson.
Jun 2022. Introduction to Analytic Philosophy. Course: Introduction to Philosophy (UBC). Main instructor: Anders Kraal.
Apr 2022. Free Will (part II). Course: Introduction to Metaphysics (UBC). Main instructor: Alexandre Duval.
Apr 2022. Free Will (part I). Course: Introduction to Metaphysics (UBC). Main instructor: Alexandre Duval.
Mar 2022. Social Ontology. Course: Introduction to Metaphysics (UBC). Main instructor: Alexandre Duval.
Mar 2022. Mereology. Course: Introduction to Metaphysics (UBC). Main instructor: Alexandre Duval.
Feb 2022. Aesthetic Experience in Abhinavagupta (UBC). Course: Topics in Epistemology. Main instructor: Catherine Prueitt.
Teaching Assistant:
I have worked as a teaching assistant for the following courses at The University of British Columbia: Foundations of Chinese Thought (x3), Philosophy of Religion (x5), Philosophical Wisdom of Early India (x1), Introduction to Metaphysics (x2), Introduction to Philosophy (x2).