Teaching

Graduate

Ontology of Mind
Fundamental Ontology
Truthmaking and Fundamentality
Modality
Universals and Particulars
Free Will
Objects in Space and Time
Global Skepticism
Epistemic Justification
Evil and Design
Metaphysics of Theism

Upper Division

Metaphysics
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Religion
Action Theory
Medieval Philosophy
Early Modern Philosophy
Space and Time
Free Will
Faith and Reason
Science and Religion
Thomas Aquinas, Treatise on God

Lower Division

Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Ethics
God, Evil, and Evidence
Evolution and Religion
Elementary Logic
Symbolic Logic

PhD Thesis Supervisor

  • George Abdo, “The Epistemology of Free Will Belief” (The University of Haifa, Israel) in progress
  • Zeyneb Taskin, “An Occasionalist Account of Divine Providence” in progress
  • Tim Leisz, “Ontic Indeterminacy and Material Composition” in progress
  • Ferhat Taskin, “The Problem of Divine Creative Freedom” in progress
  • David Fisher, “Doing Without: Philosophy of Language and Logic Against and For Nominalist Ontology” (2020)
  • Brandon Rickabaugh, “The Conscious Mind Unified” (Baylor University) 2020
  • Hao Hong, “Truthmaking and Identity” 2018
  • Tufan Kiymaz, “Phenomenal Knowledge of Physics Facts: What Mary Didn’t Know About Physicalism” 2017
  • Philip Woodward, “Towards a Theory of Mental Content” 2015
  • Chad Gonnerman, “Concepts in Psychology: Towards a Better Hybrid Theory” 2013
  • Allen Gehring, “Truthmaker Theory and Its Applications” 2012
  • John Ross Churchill, “Causal Exclusion and the Nature of the Mental” 2010
  • Jaeho Lee, “Humean Supervenience and Humean Theories of Scientific Explanation” 2010
  • Georg Theiner, “From Extended Minds to Group Minds: Rethinking the Boundaries of the Mental” 2008
  • Jonathan Jacobs, “Causal Powers: A Neo-Aristotelian Metaphysic” 2007
  • Kevin Kimble, “Phenomenal Character and Intentional Content: A Non-reductive Proposal” 2006
  • Jennifer Wolsing, “Free at Last: A Libertarian Defense of Free Will” 2005
  • Brian Morton, “Ineffability and Self-Refutation: Non-Monotonic Logic in the Thought of Pseudo-Dionysius, Sextus Empiricus, and the Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita” 2003
  • Karen Brown, “Unthought-of Possibilities and the Sources of Belief” 2002
  • James Edwards, “Justification as Intra-Personal Argumentation” 1999