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Since September 2022, I have been a teaching assistant on PHL1002A Knowledge and Reality 1, a core module for our first year undergraduates, averaging 80-120 students. The module introduces students to classical epistemological and metaphysical questions such as ‘how do we know what we know?’ and ‘what is there?’. It presents and analyses some classical questions of the nature of reality and discusses subjects such as innate knowledge, scepticism, empiricism and common sense. Students consider the early modern debate between rationalists and empiricists, as well as older and newer treatments of such related issues as Decartes’ cogito, substance, idealism and the value of metaphysics.
I run the weekly seminars where I facilitate discussions around core texts and further issues between students, and assist student queries during drop-in hours. I also run some support sessions for writing philosophy..
Since January 2022, I have been a teaching assistant on PHL2015 Body and Mind, an elective philosophy module for second and final year undergraduate philosophy students that averages 120 students. The module considers current debates in philosophy and cognitive science over the extent to which the mind depends upon an agent’s body and surrounding environment. The focus is on phenomenological and 4E approaches, and taught via application to contemporary issues such as gender, race and mental illness.
I run the fortnightly seminars where I facilitate discussions around core texts and further issues between students, assist student queries during drop-in hours and have held lectures on gender, anorexia and disability.
