TEACHING

 

Current Courses (Fall 2008)

PHIL 1005/1005H - Scientific Reasoning

PHIL 3602 - Science, Technology, and Society: Darwin and Design

 

Recent Course Offerings

PHIL 1905 - Fossils and Philosophy: Historical Knowledge [Freshman Seminar] (Spring 2008)

PHIL 5602 - Scientific Representation and Explanation: 19th Century Philosophy of Science (Spring 2008)

PHIL 1005/1005H - Scientific Reasoning (Fall 2007)

PHIL 3602 - Science, Technology, and Society: Darwin and Design (Fall 2007)

PHIL 1005 - Scientific Reasoning (Spring 2007)

PHIL 4607 - Philosophy of the Biological Sciences (Spring 2007)

PHIL 8670 (Graduate Seminar) - Philosophy of Science: Reductionism in Biology (Fall 2006)

 

Past Course Offerings (2005-2006 at UC Santa Cruz)

PHIL 9 - Introduction to Logic (Spring 2006)

PHIL 127 - Philosophy of Biology (Spring 2006)

PHIL 80S - Nature of Science: Introduction to Philosophy of Science (Winter 2006)

PHIL 190S - Philosophy of Science: Darwin and Design (Fall 2005)

 

Summary of Prior Teaching Experience

Spring 2004 – Associate Instructor for the undergraduate course “Evolution” (Primary Instructor: Rudolf Raff)

Fall 2003 – Associate Instructor for the undergraduate course “Evolution and Diversity” (Primary Instructor: Michael Wade)

Spring 2003 – Inquiry Curriculum Enhancement Team, HHMI grant, Dept. of Biology, Indiana University: designed, implemented, and assessed the effectiveness of novel teaching modules in the discussion section curriculum of the introductory lecture course “Evolution and Diversity”

Fall 2002 – Inquiry Curriculum Enhancement Team (as above)

Summer 2002 – Independent Instructor for undergraduate course “Darwinism and its Critics”

Summer 2001 – Independent Instructor for undergraduate course “Darwinism and its Critics”

Spring 2000 – Independent Instructor for undergraduate course “Myth and Science”

Summer 1999 – Independent Instructor for undergraduate course “Problem Solving”

Spring 1999 – Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course “Einstein for Everyone” (Primary Instructor: John Norton)

Fall 1998 – Teaching Assistant for undergraduate course “Thinking about the Environment” (Primary Instructor: Bruce Glymour)

 

Guest Lectures

March 2008

“Interdisciplinarity in Philosophical Perspective”, delivered at the University of Minnesota for the NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) graduate seminar

Primary Instructor: Claudia Neuhauser, PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

April 2007

“Temporality in explanations of ontogeny : making the continuous discrete ”, delivered at the University of Minnesota for the graduate seminar “Matters of Time ”

Primary Instructors: David Fox, PhD, Geology and Geophysics; Sally Kohlstedt, PhD, History of Science and Technology; Ann Waltner, PhD, History

September 2006

“Science and theology in history ”, delivered at the University of Minnesota for the undergraduate course “Origins”

Primary Instructor: Christopher Macosko, PhD, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

February 2004

“Homology: how can we trace evolutionary history with structure?”, delivered at Indiana University for the undergraduate course “Evolution”

Primary Instructor: Rudolf Raff, PhD, Biology

March 2002, 2001, 2000

“Darwinism and Christianity”, delivered at Carnegie Mellon University for the undergraduate course “Christianity and Science”

Primary Instructor: Gary Patterson, PhD, Physical Chemistry           

March 2002

 “Charles Lyell, Geology, and Darwin”, delivered at the University of Pittsburgh for the undergraduate course “Darwinism and its Critics”

Primary Instructor: James G. Lennox, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science

 

Graduate Student and Senior Project Supervision

Summer 2008 – Dissertation committee member (reader) for Barton Moffatt

Summer 2008 – Graduate Research Partnership Program Supervisor for Tom Doyle

Spring 2008 – 3 Senior Projects Supervised

Fall 2007 – Directed study with Nathan Crowe on “Darwin and Design”

Spring 2007 – 5 Senior Projects Supervised

Fall 2006 – Dissertation committee member (reader) for Toben LaFrancois

Fall 2006/Spring 2007 – Three-paper exam committee member for Jessica Slind

Winter 2006 – Directed study with Robert Harada on “Theories of Scientific Progress” [UCSC]

Fall 2005/Winter 2006 – Qualifying exam committee member for Zachary Fruhling (“Mental Causation and the Problem of Causal Exclusion”) [UCSC]