Pre-PhD Instructor
I have taught and TA'd for a wide variety of classes, usually focussed on either philosophy of science, political philosophy, or the intersection thereof. I have introduced new classes to the LSE focussed on the philosophy of Race and Gender, and also a social theory reading group based course. I am always happy to talk about potential syllabus ideas or teaching points on anything in my area of expertise.
While I cannot guarantee my availability, I have tried to make myself available to summer schools which aim at expanding access to the field, such as the PIKSI Logic programmes or the John Jay summer school for formerly incarcerated persons. At these I have taught on decision theory and social philosophy. If you have an idea for some such reach out to me, we'll see if we can make it work.
PhD Advising
I increasingly get emails from people interested in studying with me at the graduate level. To save people some time and clear up some confusions, I have some general pieces of advice for anyone who is interested in working with me that I can at least give here.
As to my (past, when that becomes a thing, and) current students, I will keep a running tally here, to give yinz a sense of what sorts of things I am getting up to as an advisor
- Primary Advisor:
Somayeh Tohidi: working on formal epistemology, my work with her focuses on statistical evidence from social scientific inquiry in the context of discrimination.
- Secondary Advisor:
eva read: working on the philosophy of animal welfare science, my work with her focuses on the incentive structure of academic fields closely intertwined with industry.
Stephanie Wanga: working on African political theory and its popular expression in art, my work with her focuses on 20th century African political philosophy.
Bele Wollesen: working on strategy-proofness in game theory, my work with her focuses on the epistemic significance of various methods of judgement aggregation.
I have taught and TA'd for a wide variety of classes, usually focussed on either philosophy of science, political philosophy, or the intersection thereof. I have introduced new classes to the LSE focussed on the philosophy of Race and Gender, and also a social theory reading group based course. I am always happy to talk about potential syllabus ideas or teaching points on anything in my area of expertise.
While I cannot guarantee my availability, I have tried to make myself available to summer schools which aim at expanding access to the field, such as the PIKSI Logic programmes or the John Jay summer school for formerly incarcerated persons. At these I have taught on decision theory and social philosophy. If you have an idea for some such reach out to me, we'll see if we can make it work.
PhD Advising
I increasingly get emails from people interested in studying with me at the graduate level. To save people some time and clear up some confusions, I have some general pieces of advice for anyone who is interested in working with me that I can at least give here.
- Look to my research page to get a sense of the projects I am interested in. I am open to working with people who do not quite work on these topics, but the proposed project or area of study will have to be thematically related to at least one of the research strands I indicate there.
- At the LSE we have a policy of assigning everyone a primary and secondary advisor. What is more, even if we did not do that, I would always advise any graduate student to only apply to a school if there are at least two people in your favoured department that you can imagine working with. So make sure your proposed project is something that would fit the general research approach of the LSE, and that you can name someone on faculty besides me who would also be good to work with on some aspect of your project.
- I like to collaborate and do interdisciplinary work! Don't be afraid to suggest connections to work going on at the LSE outside of the philosophy department. We can at least see if that could be arranged, depending on the details of the particular case.
As to my (past, when that becomes a thing, and) current students, I will keep a running tally here, to give yinz a sense of what sorts of things I am getting up to as an advisor
- Primary Advisor:
Somayeh Tohidi: working on formal epistemology, my work with her focuses on statistical evidence from social scientific inquiry in the context of discrimination.
- Secondary Advisor:
eva read: working on the philosophy of animal welfare science, my work with her focuses on the incentive structure of academic fields closely intertwined with industry.
Stephanie Wanga: working on African political theory and its popular expression in art, my work with her focuses on 20th century African political philosophy.
Bele Wollesen: working on strategy-proofness in game theory, my work with her focuses on the epistemic significance of various methods of judgement aggregation.