KURT SYLVAN
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (UK)
PH.D., RUTGERS UNIVERSITY (NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ, USA)
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      • Epistemology
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      • The Ethics of Belief
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I've taught (or taught for) the following modules at Southampton and Rutgers:
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  • Fundamentals of Ethical Theory, Fall 2025
  • Epistemology: Knowledge and Evidence, Fall 2025
  • Truth, Opinion, and Ideology, Spring 2025
  • The Mind, The Brain, and Consciousness, Spring 2025
  • Truth, Opinion, and Ideology, Spring 2024
  • Research Skills in Philosophy (MA level), Spring 2024
  • Epistemology: Knowledge and Evidence, Fall 2023
  • The Mind, the Brain, and Consciousness, Fall 2023
  • Seminar on Foundationalism (MA level), Fall 2023
  • Truth, Opinion, and Ideology, Spring 2023
  • Classical Indian Philosophy, Spring 2023
  • Political Philosophy, Spring 2023
  • The Mind, The Brain, and Consciousness, Fall 2022
  • Political Philosophy, Spring 2022
  • Kant's Copernican Revolution in Philosophy, Spring 2022
  • The Mind, The Brain, and Consciousness, Fall 2021
  • Minds, Worlds, and Categories (MA Seminar), Fall 2021
  • Ethics, Spring 2020
  • Moral Philosophy, Fall 2020
  • Philosophy of Mind, Fall 2020
  • Epistemology, Fall 2019
  • The Metaphysics of Knowledge, Fall 2019
  • Classical Indian Philosophy, Fall 2019 and Fall 2020 (with Chris Janaway) 
  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2019 
  • Moral Philosophy, Spring 2019 
  • Skepticism, Fall 2018 
  • Epistemology, Fall 2018 
  • Ethics, Spring 2018 
  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2018 
  • Epistemology, Fall 2017
  • Experience and the Distinctiveness of Perceptual Knowledge, Fall 2017 
  • Epistemology, Spring 2017 
  • The Ethics of Belief, Spring 2017 
  • Philosophy of Mind, Fall 2015 
  • Political Philosophy, Fall 2015 
  • Epistemology, Spring 2015 
  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2015 
  • Moral Philosophy, Fall 2014 
  • Reasons, Rationality, and Ethics, Fall 2014 
  • Ethics of Belief, Spring 2014 
  • Moral Philosophy, Spring 2014 
  • 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 and seminars for Appearance and Reality, organized our post-graduate research seminar, supervised countless undergraduate dissertations on various topics in epistemology, ethics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy (...on average I supervise six undergraduate dissertations a year), supervised MA dissertations and MA independent studies on many different topics in epistemology, philosophy of mind, political philosophy, classical Indian philosophy, and ethics, and supervised or co-supervised PhDs in metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind and neurodiversity, and Kant.
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