Teaching
Below is a list of courses that I am teaching in the coming academic year (F2009-W2010), as well as courses that I have taught before, at Ryerson or elsewhere. My active courses have Blackboard sites that enrolled students can access via RAMSS. Ryerson students can learn more about the philosophy option within the Arts and Contemporary Studies program by clicking here.
PHL 365: Philosophy of Beauty (Fall 2009)
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Can beauty be defined? Are judgements of beauty fundamentally subjective? Does beauty have value, or is it a harmful and oppressive notion? Are humans ‘hard-wired’ to pursue the beautiful? |
PHL 606: Philosophy of Love and Sex (Winter 2010)
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What is romantic love? What relation does it have to sex? Is adultery always morally wrong? What is the moral status of prostitution and the commodification of sex? |
Courses Taught Previously (at Ryerson or elsewhere)
- ACS 500: Ideas that
- ACS 500: Ideas that Shape the World V (with Sarah Henstra)
- ACS 303: Introduction to Science and Technology
- PHL708: Introduction to Modern Philosophy
- PHL504: Philosophy of Art
- PHL 611: Philosophy of Mind
- PHL500: Philosophy of the Natural Environment
- Introduction to Metaphysics
- Venus and Mars: Biology, Culture and the Meaning of Sex (with Terry Graham)
- Critical Reasoning