At UNL, I have taught several classes as a lead instructor and have also led discussion/recitation sections as a teaching assistant. Below is a list of the courses and sections, along with some additional details for each.
At UNL, I have taught several classes as a lead instructor and have also led discussion/recitation sections as a teaching assistant. Below is a list of the courses and sections, along with some additional details for each.
In the first half of this course, ethical theories are explored, including utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, virtue ethics, and social contract theory, among others. The second half of the semester focuses on applying these theories to pressing ethical issues such as racism, climate change, and animal rights. I have used Russ Shafer-Landau’s The Ethical Life and The Fundamentals of Ethics as primary textbooks, supplemented with additional readings for a comprehensive approach.
In this course, various philosophical views on topics such as external world skepticism, the existence of God, the mind-body problem, and the free will problem are explored. The Norton Introduction to Philosophy by Gideon Rosen, Alex Byrne, Joshua Cohen, Elizabeth Harman, and Seana Shiffrin is used as the core textbook.
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