In this 2nd year undergraduate course we explored Interpretationism - the idea that what it is to mean something by a particular utterance is for that to be the best interpretative model of the speaker at the time. We looked at Quine, Davidson, and Dennett in detail to explore these ideas.

In the words of one of my students: “The environment of his seminar is comfortable and stimulating. The overall progression of seminars has changed my approach to philosophy and helped me gain confidence”

In this 2nd year undergraduate course we covered questions over the nature of time, space, and causation. We considered what makes an object, and a person, and what it takes for those things to persist.

In this 2nd year undergraduate course we discussed various core questions in philosophy of mind. This included topics such as consciousness, perception, the self, and how we can know other minds.

In the words of one of the students: “Really like that opinions are valued…Actually one of the best seminars as it is”

In this 3rd year undergraduate and postgradaute coruse we covered questions about moral judgements and language, how we know moral truths, whether morality is objective, whether we should be moral and why, and what moral philosophy is.

I additionally delivered a lecture on free will and moral responsibility. If you’re wondering how it went, one student wrote to the module lead to say: ‘how much I enjoyed Alex’s lecture. The content was excellently explained, and he tackled our questions with an expert nimbleness!’

In this 3rd year undergraduate and postgraduate course we covered a range of perplexing paradoxes including Sorites, Zeno, liar paradox, Russell’s paradox, and the Newcomb Problem.