At the undergraduate level: I regularly teach a survey course on early modern philosophy as well more advanced courses on Descartes and Leibniz. In addition I regularly teach a course on women’s rights and multiculturalism. Other past courses include “Introduction to philosophy and feminism” and “Aquinas and Descartes”.
Graduate: “Consciousness Then and Now” (with Bill Seager): an examination of issues around consciousness and the mind-body problem in early modern and contemporary philosophy.
“Descartes and the Scholastics”: central topics in Descartes’s philosophy examined in relation to scholastic sources, such as Aquinas and Suárez, as well as Avicenna.
“Leibniz”: an approach to Leibniz’ metaphysics in relation to other early moderns such as Descartes, Malebranche and Cudworth.
“Spinoza and Leibniz” (with Karolina Hübner): a comparison of central metaphysical issues.
“Individuation in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy” (with Martin Pickavé): how thinkers such as Aquinas, Scotus, Suárez, Descartes, Leibniz approached various issues around individuation.
“The Unity of the Self in Early Modern Philosophy” (with Daniel Warren at UC Berkeley): the unity of consciousness and personal identity in thinkers such as Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, and the Clarke-Collins Correspondence.
“Consciousness in 17th and 18th century philosophy” (with Donald Ainslie): the nature of consciousness, its connection with the mind-body problem and personal identity in thinkers such as Descartes, Locke, Hume, the Clarke-Collins Correspondence.
“Multiculturalism and Human Rights” (with Wayne Sumner): examination of tensions between respect for human rights and multiculturalism, especially in relation to women, immigrant and aboriginal cultures.