Current Courses

• Fall 2006: PHI 318, "Metaphysics". A survey of three topics in metaphysics: free will, material constitution, and time. More information is available here.

Previous Courses

• PHIL 100, "Puzzles and Paradoxes," Fall 2001, Fall 2002. An introductory, writing-intensive survey of some philosophical conundrums, including the paradoxes of time-travel, Zeno's paradoxes and puzzles about infinity, vagueness and the sorites paradox, and puzzles about rationality and decision-making.
• PHIL 101, "Introduction to Philosophy," Fall 2003. The name and number kind of says it all. Topics covered: Skepticism, the existence of God, minds and machines, freedom and responsibility, and right and wrong.
• PHIL 261, "Knowledge and Reality," Fall 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2004. An introduction to metaphysics and epistemology, looking at skepticism about the external world, skepticism about induction, the mind/body problem, free will, and personal identity.
• PHI 318, "Metaphysics," Fall 2005. A survey of three topics in metaphysics: free will, material constitution, and time.
• PHIL 331, "Deductive Logic," Spring 2003, Fall 2003. An advanced introduction to central results in logic, computability theory and metamathematics, culminating in proofs of Gödel's incompleteness theorems.
• PHIL 364, "Metaphysics: Free Will," Spring 2002. An investigation into problems surrounding free will, determinism and moral responsibility. This course was built around Peter van Inwagen's book, An Essay on Free Will.
• PHIL 464, "Metaphysics: Free Will," Spring 2004. As above, but at a considerably higher level.
• PHIL 665, "Metaphysics: Dispositions," Spring 2002. A graduate-level research seminar looking at issues in the metaphysics of dispositions.
• PHIL 665, "Metaphysics: Possible Worlds," Fall 2002, Spring 2006. A graduate-level introduction to areas of metaphysics, logic and philosophy of language having something to do with possible worlds. We looked at possible worlds semantics for modal logic, focusing on philosophical problems that might arise from this kind of semantics; applications of possible worlds semantics to topics in philosophy of language and epistemology; and questions about the nature and status of possible worlds themselves.