Teaching

I regularly cycle between four undergraduate courses at the University of Virginia:

  1. Minds, Machines, and Persons: Intro to the philosophy of mind and cognitive science

  2. Consciousness: Intro to philosophical and scientific issues of consciousness

  3. Philosophy of Memory: Intermediate-level survey of issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and personal identity related to memory

  4. Philosophy of Neuroscience: upper level seminar on the philosophical foundations of neuroscience

I have also taught five graduate seminars:

  1. The Norms of Attention in the Age of Distraction (UVA)

  2. The Stream of Consciousness (UVA)

  3. Mental Action (UVA)

  4. Attention Norms in Buddhist and Western Philosophy (UVA; co-instructor Sonam Kachru)

  5. Mind-Wandering and the Norms of Attention (UVA)

  6. Attention and Mind-Wandering (University of British Columbia; Co-Instructor Evan Thompson). That year, I also helped Kalina Christoff design a cognitive neuroscience graduate seminar on spontaneous thought, which was a blast.