Teaching Material
Over the years, I had the opportunity to teach a number of courses at various institutions (University of Bristol, Heinrich-Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf, New College of the Humanities and London School of Economics). Here I make available some related teaching materials, namely slides and syllabuses, in the hope that students or colleagues may find them useful.
Epistemology:
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here
Lecture 1 - Foundationalism and Coherentism
Lecture 2 - Ways of Knowing (Perception)
Lecture 3 - Ways of Knowing (Testimony)
Lecture 4 - Knowledge Analysis (Inferences and Defeaters)
Lecture 5 - Knowledge Analysis (Causes and Reliability)
Lecture 6 - Knowledge Analysis (Tracking the Truth)
Lecture 7 - Internalism Vs. Externalism
Lecture 8 - Scepticism
Lecture 9 - Naturalism
Lecture 10 - Contextualism
Philosophy of Science:
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Lecture 1 - Theory and Observation
Lecture 2 - Induction and its Problems
Lecture 3 - Confirmation: Hypothetico-Deductivism
Lecture 4 - Confirmation: Bayesianism
Lecture 5 - Scientific Revolutions
Lecture 6 - The Scientific Realism Debate
Lecture 7 - Theories of Explanation
Lecture 8 - Causation
Lecture 9 - Laws of Nature
Lecture 10 - Natural Kinds
Critical Reasoning:
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Lecture 1 - A Typology of Inferences (Part I)
Lecture 2 - A Typology of Inferences (Part II)
Lecture 3 - Fallacies in the Media and Beyond
Lecture 4 - Techniques in Reasoning
Lecture 5 - Observation and Theory
Lecture 6 - Induction and Falsification
Lecture 7 - Scientific Explanation and Confirmation
Lecture 8 - Thought Experiments
Lecture 9 - Social Science and the Humanities
Lecture 10 - Methods in Psychology
Lecture 11 - Evidential Standards in Medicine
Lecture 12 - Data Science (Artificial Intelligence)
Lecture 13 - Data Science (Coding)
Logic (Formal and Philosophical):
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Lecture 11 - The Syntax of Propositional Logic
Lecture 12 - The Semantics of Propositional Logic (Part I)
Lecture 13 - The Semantics of Propositional Logic (Part II)
Lecture 14 - Derivations in Propositional Logic (Part I)
Lecture 15 - Derivations in Propositional Logic (Part II)
Lecture 16 - The Syntax of Predicate Logic
Lecture 17 - Formalisation in Predicate Logic
Lecture 18 - The Semantics of Predicate Logic (Part I)
Lecture 19 - The Semantics of Predicate Logic (Part II)
Lecture 20 - Predicate Logic with Identity
Evidence and Policy:
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Lecture 1 - Evidence-Guided Policy: What is it? Why do we need it?
Lecture 2 - Public Understanding of Science
Lecture 3 - Epistemic Autonomy
Lecture 4 - Evidence and Values
Lecture 5 - Aggregating Judgment
Lecture 6 - The Precautionary Principle
Lecture 7 - Case Study: Medicine
Lecture 8 - Case Study: Climate Science
Lecture 9 - Case Study: Politics
Lecture 10 - Case Study: Economics
Meta-Metaphysics:
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Structural Realism:
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Scientific Realism:
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here
The Theory-Ladenness of Observation:
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here
Intuitions:
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here
The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence:
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Evidence:
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Philosophy of Logic:
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