Teaching: Current and Past
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.
Upcoming Courses:
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)
Open Access Lectures:
Undergraduate Courses:
Some Graduate Seminars:
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.
Upcoming Courses:
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)
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!)
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)