Teaching

This page lists the topics I have taught, spanning my time at Leeds, Cambridge, and Kings.

  • At Kings and Cambridge, I’ve taught a variety of topics from the history of aesthetics as well as from the contemporary debate. The historical theories of art that I’ve taught include Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Sontag, and Murdoch. I’ve also taught contemporary issues in aesthetics and philosophy of art including the art and ethics debate, cognitivist theories of art, the nature of fiction, expression, representation, the aesthetics of the body, and virtue theories of art. My research in aesthetics has always informed my teaching, as has my interest in diversifying the canon when it comes to both the history and philosophy of art.

  • I supervised for the second year ‘Ethics’ paper at Cambridge, including environmental ethics. I’ve also supervised MPhil essays and dissertations on metaethics and moral phenomenology. I have lectured on various historical perspectives on ethics including Aristotelian ethics, Hume's ethics, Kantian ethics, and the ethical theories of Weil, Murdoch, and Beauvoir.

  • I have lectured on various historical perspectives in political philosophy including those of Plato, Hobbes, Kant, Marx, The Frankfurt School and Foucault. At Cambridge, I also taught and examined contemporary political philosophy including topics from the philosophy of gender and contemporary feminist thought.

  • I designed and facilitated the Continental Philosophy course at Leeds which is taken by UG and Ma students. This spans from Hegel to Foucault by way of Nietzsche, Sartre, Beauvoir and the Frankfurt School. I lectured and supervised for the ‘Modern European Philosophy after Kant’ paper at Cambridge and the 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy modules at Kings. I have taught a widely across the continental tradition, but specialise in Hegel, Nietzsche and Beauvoir.

  • I lectured for the ‘Wittgenstein and his Successors’ paper at Cambridge. This 12-lecture series focused on the Philosophical Investigations as well as thematic connections between the text and later figures, including Murdoch and Diamond.