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• BA/MA Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics
• Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science (Sciences) (continued from the fall semester)
• We will continue to hold our research seminar in the philosophy of physics. More information will be available at the Geneva Symmetry Group website.

In spring 2024, I will also be teaching in Lugano at the Universitá‌ della Svizzera italiana in the MA program in philosophy:

• Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics
• Seminar in Philosophy of Physics 2024

To be announced--stay tuned.

Note: The links are to the most recent instantiation of the courses.

Geneva BA courses:

• BA/MA Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics
• BA2b Introduction à la philosophie des sciences (Fall, 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015; link is to the most recent edition)
• BA3b Introduction à la métaphysique (Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019; link is to the most recent edition)
• BA7 Introduction à la philosophie de la physique (mécanique quantique) (Spring 2018)

Geneva MA seminars:

• MA Philosophy of Physics: The Physics of Time (Fall 2023, with Ryan Miller and Tannaz Najafi)
• MA The Fundamentality of Physics and the Autonomy of the Special Sciences (Fall 2023, with Marcel Weber)
• MA Philosophy of Physics: The Philosophy of Black Holes (Spring 2023, with Saakshi Dulani)
• BA/MA Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics
• MA The Tools of Scientific Metaphysics (Fall 2021, with Alberto Corti)
• MA Philosophy of Physics (Fall 2021)
• MA The Logic in Philosophy (Fall 2020, with Fabrice Correia, Joshua Babic, and Lorenzo Cocco)
• MA Philosophy of Physics (Fall 2020); for the spring 2021 program for the seminar in philosophy of physics, visit the Geneva Symmetry Group website.
• MA Philosophy of Economics (Fall 2019, with Lorenzo Casini)
• MA Epistemology of Science (Fall 2019, with Baptiste Le Bihan)
• MA Philosophy of Physics (Fall 2019); for the spring 2020 program for the seminar in philosophy of physics, visit the Geneva Symmetry Group website.
• MA Fundamentality (Fall 2018, with Claudio Calosi)
• MA Philosophy of Physics (Fall 2018, with Karen Crowther and Niels Linnemann); for the spring 2019 program for the seminar in philosophy of physics, visit the Geneva Symmetry Group website.
• MA Metaphysics of Science (Fall 2017, with Claudio Calosi)
• MA Philosophy of Physics (Fall 2017, with Karen Crowther); for the spring 2018 program for the seminar in philosophy of physics, visit the Geneva Symmetry Group website.
• MA General Philosophy of Science (Spring 2017, with Marcel Weber and Raphael Scholl)
• MA General Philosophy of Science (Fall 2016, with Marcel Weber and Raphael Scholl)
• MA Philosophy of Physics (Fall 2016); for the spring 2017 program for the seminar in philosophy of physics, visit the Geneva Symmetry Group website.
• MA General Philosophy of Science (Spring 2016, with Michael Baumgartner and Marcel Weber)
• MA General Philosophy of Science (Fall 2015, with Michael Baumgartner and Marcel Weber)
• MA Philosophy of Physics (Fall 2015); for the spring 2016 program for the seminar in philosophy of physics, visit the Geneva Symmetry Group website.

Geneva Professionalization Workshops:

• Workshop: How to Become a Professional Philosopher 2021
• Workshop: How to Become a Professional Philosopher 2020
• Workshop: How to Become a Professional Philosopher 2019
• Workshop: How to Become a Professional Philosopher 2018
• Workshop: How to Become a Professional Philosopher 2017
• Workshop: How to Become a Professional Philosopher 2016

USI Lugano MA courses:

• Introduction to the Philosophy of Physics (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019, Spring 2018; link is to the most recent edition)
• Seminar in Philosophy of Physics (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020; link is to the most recent edition)
• Philosophy of Mathematics

UCSD Undergraduate courses:

• 10 Introduction to Logic (Spring 2015, Summer 2013)
• 12 Scientific Reasoning (previously entitled 'Logic and Decision Making'; Fall 2007, Summer 2010, Summer 2013)
• 14 Introduction to Philosophy: The Nature of Reality (previously entitled 'Introduction to Philosophy: Metaphysics'; Winter 2009, Winter 2014, Winter 2015)
• 15 Introduction to Philosophy: Theory of Knowledge (Spring 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010)
• 25 Science, Philosophy, and the Big Questions (Winter 2012)
• 87 Freshman Seminar: Time Travel and Its Paradoxes (Winter 2009, Spring 2010)
• 124 Philosophy of Mathematics (Winter 2012, Winter 2014)
• 130 Metaphysics (Fall 2012)
• 145 Philosophy of Science (Winter 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2011, Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
• 146 Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Mechanics (Winter 2009, Winter 2013)

UCSD Graduate seminars:

• 285 Laws, Modality, and Properties in Naturalistic Metaphysics (with Tomasz Bigaj)
• 245 Reduction and Emergence (Fall 2013)
• 205A Core Course in Metaphysics (Winter 2013)
• 204A The Epistemology of Science (Fall 2011)
• 246 Structure in Philosophy, Mathematics, and Physics (Spring 2010)