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Teaching: Past, Current, and Future

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.

2020-21 Teaching Awards:
2021 Teaching with Digital Technology Award (student nominated and selected) - with Libby McDonald for "Gender and Development" 
2021-22 Infinite Mile Award (Office of the Vice Chancellor, MIT) - with the Academic Team at D-Lab

Teaching 2021-22:

Fall 2021:
24.234/634 / WGS.277 / EC.718/798: Gender and Development, with Libby McDonald in D-Lab (at grad and undergrad levels) - to learn more about our work, visit a blog that describes the project in Kenya (Fall term 2019 - visit to Kenya in January 2020).

Spring 2022:
24.237 / WGS.301 / 17.007 / 17/006 / 24.637: Feminist Thought (at grad and undergrad levels)

​Both terms: Placement Seminar


Past Courses:
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)
  • Gender and Development, with Libby McDonald in D-Lab (at grad and undergrad levels) - 24.234/634 / WGS.277 / EC.718/798
  • 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

Some 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)

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