KURT SYLVAN
PH.D., RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (NEW BRUNSWICK)
LECTURER, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (UK)
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I've taught the following courses at Southampton and Rutgers:

  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2019 (Southampton)
  • Moral Philosophy, Spring 2019 (Southampton)
  • Skepticism, Fall 2018 (Southampton)
  • Epistemology, Fall 2018 (Southampton)
  • Ethics, Spring 2018 (Southampton)
  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2018 (Southampton)
  • Epistemology, Fall 2017 (Southampton)
  • Experience and the Distinctiveness of Perceptual Knowledge, Fall 2017 (Southampton)
  • Epistemology, Spring 2017 (Southampton)
  • The Ethics of Belief, Spring 2017 (Southampton)
  • Philosophy of Mind, Fall 2015 (Southampton)
  • Political Philosophy, Fall 2015 (Southampton)
  • Epistemology, Spring 2015 (Southampton)
  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2015 (Southampton)
  • Moral Philosophy, Fall 2014 (Southampton)
  • Reasons, Rationality, and Ethics, Fall 2014 (Southampton)
  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2014 (Southampton)
  • Moral Philosophy, Spring 2014 (Southampton)
  • Introduction to Epistemology, Summer 2013 (Rutgers)
  • Aesthetics of Film, Summer 2012 (Rutgers)
  • Introduction to Metaphysics, Summer 2011 (Rutgers)
  • Introduction to Philosophy (TA), Spring 2011 (Rutgers)
  • Current Moral and Social Issues (TA), Fall 2010 (Rutgers)

I've also taught tutorials for Ethics and Knowledge and Mind, organized our post-graduate research seminar, supervised many undergraduate dissertations on various topics in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy, supervised five MA dissertations on different topics in philosophy of mind and ethics, and did an independent study with two MA students on Jackson's knowledge argument.