Recent Courses

Find several of my courses on MIT’s Open Courseware (OCW list for L&P)
Here is an ongoing bibliography on critical theory and social practices that gives full references to works I often cite.

Open Access:

• WiPhi lecture on The Problem of Evil.  (Note that I'm channeling John Mackie's "Evil and Omnipotence." I make no claim to originality!)

Undergraduate Courses:

• Problems of Philosophy (24.00)
• Classics of Western Philosophy (24.01) - much improved syllabus from 2018 here.
• Moral Problems and the Good Life (24.02)
• Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food Choices (24.03)
• Ethics in Your Life: Being, Thinking, and Doing (or not?) (24.191) with Radius@MIT
• Feminist Political Thought (cross-listed with Women's and Gender Studies Program) (SP.601); in some occurrences titled Feminist Theory, others Feminist Thought. (Fall 2014 on OCW)
• Introduction to Modern Philosophy 
• Introduction to Women's Studies (SP.401) (syllabus selected to be included in the syllabus repository at the Women and Society Internet Reference Project, SUNY-Buffalo)
• Introduction to Ancient Philosophy
• Concepts of Self
• Knowledge and Reality
• Topics in the History of Philosophy: Justice and Political Economy (with Rachel McKinney)
• Metaphysics
• Theory of Knowledge
• Philosophy of Language 
• Topics in Social Theory and Practice (Topic varies by term.  Fall 2014 and Spring 2018 topic: Race and Racism)
• Philosophical Topics in the Study of Gender (cross-listed with Women's Studies)
• Liberalism, Individualism, and Gender (co-taught, in Women's Studies)
• Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (cross-listed with Women's Studies)
• Aristotle

Recent Graduate Seminars:

• Critical Epistemologies (Fall 2018)
• Critical Theory and Social Practices (Spring 2018) - bibliography here.
• Language and Power, with Justin Khoo and Mark Richard (Spring 2017).
• Objectivity, with Stephen Yablo (Fall 2015)
• Ideology and Social Critique (University of Amsterdam, Spring 2015)
• Proseminar in Philosophy (Spring 2015)
• Topics in Metaphysics and Ethics: Social Structure: What? How? Why? (Spring 2012)
• Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology in the Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies, with Peter Taylor (Spring 2011)
• Feminist Political Philosophy: Gender, Objectification and Pornography, with Rae Langton (Spring 2009)
• Philosophy of Social Science (Fall 2006)
• Apriori Knowledge (Spring 2005)
• Classification, Natural Kinds, and Conceptual Change: Race as a Case Study, with Prof. Koffi Maglo, (Spring 2004)
• Problems in Metaphysics: Social Facts and Social Ontology (Spring 2003)
• Topics in Epistemology (Winter 2001)
• Aristotle (Winter 2000, Winter 2004)
• Problems in Metaphysics: Race, Gender, and Social Construction (Winter, 1999)
• Feminist Perspectives on Agency and Rationality (with Prof. Elizabeth Anderson, Winter 1997)
• Natural Kinds and Social Constructions (Fall 1994)
• Theories of Gender (Spring 1992)
• Necessity and the A Priori (Fall 1991)