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National University of Singapore

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, STS Research Cluster

2008-09 (Semester 1): Introduction to Philosophy of Technology
2008-09 (Semester 1): Knowledge, Modernity, and Global Change
2008-09 (Semester 2): Introduction to Philosophy of Science
2008-09 (Semester 2): History of Western Philosophy (Graduate Seminar)

Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy

2007-08 (Semester 1): Introduction to Philosophy of Science
2007-08 (Semester 1): Philosophical Topics (Graduate Seminar, Topic: Social Epistemology)
2007-08 (Semester 2): Hume and Kant

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Guest lecturer

April 2006: Block seminar (at graduate level) in Social Epistemology, Dept. of Philosophy and History of Science

University of Cambridge

Tutorials in Philosophy of Science for third- and second-year science undergrads, and for second-year philosophy undergrads.

Winter 2001 (Michaelmas term): Explanation, Causation, and Law; Recent History of Philosophy of Science
Spring 2002 (Lent term): Problems of Induction; Philosophy of Probability
Winter 2002 (Michaelmas term): Rule-Following (Kripke and Wittgenstein on rules and private language); Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Spring 2003 (Lent term): Epistemology of Testimony; Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Winter 2003 (Michaelmas term): Epistemology of Testimony; Introduction to Philosophy of Science
Winter 2004 (Michaelmas term): Ideologies of Science; Epistemology of Testimony

Lecturers: Prof. Nick Jardine, Prof. Martin Kusch, Prof. Peter Lipton, Dr. Richard Jennings, Dr. David Corfield

Reading Group (8 seminars per term, 3 terms per year; in-depth discussion of a classic monograph or essay volume)

Spring 2002-Winter 2003: Philosophy of Language Reading Group (organized by M. Sprevak, C. McLeish, and A. Gelfert). (Books discussed include Blackburn: Spreading the Word, Field: Truth and the Absence of Fact, Moore (ed.): Meaning and Reference, and The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Language)

Humboldt University, Berlin

Winter 1997/1998: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, Optics, Elementary nonlinear dynamics
Summer 1998: Quantum mechanics, Physics of atoms, molecules, and solids, Mathematical methods of quantum mechanics
Winter 1999/2000: Introductory mathematical methods of physics, Newtonian mechanics, Fluid mechanics, Thermodynamics
Summer 2000: Special relativity, Electricity & magnetism, Theoretical electrodynamics, Mathematical methods of classical physics

Lecturers: Prof. R. Keiper (HU Berlin), Prof. T. Lohse (DESY and HU Berlin), Prof. M. Müller-Preußker (HU Berlin)