Course Materials
Here is a list of all the courses courses I have taught, with links to materials for most of them. (Click here for a list ordered by course level instead of date.)
University of Kansas: | |
Spring 2023 |
none scheduled |
Fall 2022 |
none scheduled |
Spring 2022 |
none scheduled |
Fall 2021 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory |
Spring 2021 |
none |
Fall 2020 |
none |
Spring 2020 |
none |
Fall 2019 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory |
Spring 2019 |
none |
Fall 2018 |
none |
Spring 2018 |
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Fall 2017 |
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Spring 2017 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Fall 2016 |
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Consequentialism and Legal Theory—Shaw, Singer, Railton, Pettit, Kamm, Posner, Scalia, Dworkin, and Tamanaha Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Spring 2016 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues |
Fall 2015 |
none (sabbatical) |
Spring 2015 |
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Fall 2014 |
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Contemporary Consequentialism—The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism and other readings Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Spring 2014 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues Philosophy 161: Introduction to Ethics Honors—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Fall 2013 |
none (Keeler Family Intra-University Professorship) |
Spring 2013 |
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Fall 2012 |
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—meta-ethics, ethical theory, and applied ethics |
Spring 2012 |
Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues |
Fall 2011 |
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Consequentialism and Cost-Benefit Analysis—Shaw, Sen, Adler & Posner, Wolff, and others |
Spring 2011 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues |
Fall 2010 |
Philosophy 670: Contemporary Ethical Theory—meta-ethics and normative ethics |
Spring 2010 |
Philosophy 800: Tutorial—various topics, with emphasis on expository and argumentative writing Biology 420 / Philosophy 500: The Ethics of Scientific Research—fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, conflicts of interest, institutional review boards, protection of human and animal subjects, and other issues |
Fall 2009 |
Philosophy 670: Contemporary Ethical Theory—meta-ethics and normative ethics |
Spring 2009 |
Philosophy 800: Tutorial—various topics, with emphasis on expository and argumentative writing |
Fall 2008 |
none (sabbatical) |
Spring 2008 |
Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices |
Fall 2007 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices |
Spring 2007 |
Philosophy 820: Topics in the History of Philosophy: Mill’s Practical Philosophy (taught with Ann Cudd)—Utilitarianism, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women, and other texts Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices |
Fall 2006 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory, game theory, and social-choice theory Philosophy 148: Reason and Argument—inductive and deductive arguments, fallacies, and rhetorical devices |
Spring 2006 |
Philosophy 900: Research in Philosophy (on consequentialism and desert)—Shaw’s Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism, papers by Kagan, and other readings Philosophy 886: Topics in Applied Ethics: The Ethics of Genetic Technology—Buchanan, Brock, Daniels, and Wikler’s From Chance to Choice, and other readings |
Fall 2005 |
Philosophy 666: Rational Choice Theory—decision theory |
Spring 2005 |
Philosophy 674: Philosophy of Law—theories of constitutional interpretation, principles of criminal and civil law, and recent movements such as law and economics and feminist critiques |
Fall 2004 |
Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics |
Spring 2004 |
Philosophy 555: Justice and Economic Systems—Rawls, Nozick, Unger, Ehrenreich Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics |
Fall 2003 |
Philosophy 499: Senior Essay (on Hume and Kant)Philosophy 499: Senior Essay (on theories of welfare)Philosophy 672: History of Ethics—Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill Philosophy 160: Introduction to Ethics—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics Honors Program 190: Freshman Honors Tutorial—The Lives to Come: Genes, Medicine, and Ethics |
Summer 2003 |
Philosophy 600: Readings in Philosophy (on Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality) |
Spring 2003 |
Philosophy 499: Senior Essay (on The Problem of Pain, by C. S. Lewis)Philosophy 555: Justice and Economic Systems—Rawls, Nozick, Unger Philosophy 161: Introduction to Ethics Honors—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics |
Fall 2002 |
Philosophy 880: Topics in Ethics: Contemporary Consequentialism—Hare, Hooker, and others Philosophy 672: History of Ethics—Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill |
Washington and Lee University: | |
Spring 2002 |
Independent study on Justice as Fairness: A Restatement, by John RawlsIntroduction to Ethics—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics |
Winter 2002 |
Philosophy and Economics—rationality, morality, welfare, consequentialism, equality, game theory Ethics of Life and Death—contemporary problems of bioethics and related areas of applied ethics |
Fall 2001 |
Contemporary Political Philosophy (Distributive Justice)—Rawls, Nozick, Unger Introduction to Ethics—contemporary problems of ethics and meta-ethics |
University of Pittsburgh: | |
Summer 2000 |
Philosophy of Law—theories of what law is, plus some problems of legal interpretation |
Summer 1999 |
Business Ethics—contemporary problems and theoretical issues |
Spring 1999 |
Introduction to Logic—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Michael Perloff —Venn diagrams, truth tables, truth trees, deductions |
Fall 1998 |
Introduction to Ethics—Locke, Kant, Huxley, Mill, Wright |
Summer 1998 |
Social Philosophy—Hobbes, Rousseau, Huxley, Mill, Freud |
Spring 1998 |
Introduction to Ethics—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Doug Patterson —Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill |
Fall 1997 |
Introduction to Philosophical Problems—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Joe Camp —existence of God, Descartes, empiricism, free will |
Summer 1997 |
Political Philosophy—Sophocles, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Melville, Mill, Marx and Engels |
Spring 1997 |
Political Philosophy—discussion-section instructor for course taught by Michael Thompson —Locke, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx |
Fall 1996 |
Introduction to Ethics—discussion-section instructor for course taught by David Gauthier —Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Mill, Rawls, Gauthier, Nietzsche, Ayer |