Spring 2020
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Science (PHIL541S)
Core seminar of the HPSTM graduate certificate program.
Co-taught with Jennifer Jhun.
Problems in Philosophy of Science (PHIL242S)
An introduction to some topics in philosophy of science and philosophy of physics.
Fall 2019
Problems in Philosophy of Science (PHIL242)
An introduction to some topics in philosophy of science and philosophy of physics.
Co-taught with Felipe De Brigard.
Spring 2019
Historical and Philosophical Perspectives on Science (PHIL541S)
Core seminar of the HPSTM graduate certificate program. Co-taught with Andrew Janiak.
Methodology of the Empirical Sciences: Newton's Principia (PHIL633S)
With George Smith's
Newton Lectures livecast from Tufts.
Fall 2018
Problems in natural philosophy from Descartes to Kant (PHIL590S)
Focus: space, time and matter.
Issues include: questions of metaphysics, epistemology, and methodology, and we will cover such topics as absolute versus relative space and time, laws of nature, causality, determinism, and the nature and properties of bodies.
Main characters: Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Du Châtelet, Euler, d'Alembert.
Supporting cast includes: Spinoza, Locke, Malebranche, Wolff, Berkeley, Maupertuis, Hume, Kant.