I teach a wide range of classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I enjoy teaching most areas of philosophy, especially those areas that *I* want to learn more about. (Sometimes the best way to learn something is to figure out how you would teach it to someone else.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Below is a list of all the classes for which I was the primary instructor or, in the case of co-taught classes, one of the primary instructors. Many of these classes I have taught more than once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At Notre Dame:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Undergraduate classes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction to Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Freshman University Seminar<\/p>\n\n\n\n Topics in Metaphysics (Time, Material Constitution, Modality, Existence)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Early Modern Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Philosophy of Edith Stein<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graduate classes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Graduate Proseminar<\/p>\n\n\n\n Being and Non-Being, Then and Now (co-taught with Sam Newlands)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Monism<\/p>\n\n\n\n Edith Stein<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Metaphysics of You and I<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n At Syracuse University:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Undergraduate classes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Six Myths about the Good Life<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honors Introduction to Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n British Empiricism<\/p>\n\n\n\n 20th<\/sup>\u00a0Century Theories of Knowledge and Reality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Philosophy of Religion<\/p>\n\n\n\n Truth and Truthmakers<\/p>\n\n\n\n Topics in Metaphysics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meta-Ethics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metaphysics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graduate classes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n History of the A Priori<\/p>\n\n\n\n Early 20th Century Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metaphysics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kant\u2019s\u00a0Critique of Pure Reason<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Proseminar: Language, Epistemology, Mind, Metaphysics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Husserl\u2019s\u00a0Logical Investigations<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Leibniz: Substance, Modality, Causation (co-taught with Kara Richardson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Descartes\u2019 Metaphysics (co-taught with Kara Richardson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parts and Wholes<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Metaphysics of Ethics (co-taught with Ben Bradley)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hyper-Intensionality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Modality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Properties<\/p>\n\n\n\n Essence and Potentiality<\/p>\n\n\n\n Parfit\u2019s\u00a0Reasons and Persons<\/em>\u00a0(co-taught with Ben Bradley)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foundations of Analytic Ethics (co-taught with Ben Bradley)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Existence<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the University of Massachusetts-Amherst:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Undergraduate classes<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction to Philosophy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction to Symbolic Logic<\/p>\n\n\n\n Introduction to Ethics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Medical Ethics<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kant\u2019s\u00a0Critique of Pure Reason<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Philosophy of Religion<\/p>\n\n\n\n As the list above indicates, I have taught a wide variety of metaphysics classes both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as many classes in history of philosophy and ethics (including meta-ethics).<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to the classes I have taught, I have a \u201cteaching bucket list\u201d, consisting mostly of classes in the history of philosophy. \u00a0(The class on Leibniz, co-taught with Kara Richardson, and the class on Husserl\u2019s Logical Investigations were previously on that list.) \u00a0I am very interested in late 19th century \/ early 20th century philosophy; I would love to teach a survey class on early figures in the phenomenological tradition, such as Brentano, Husserl, Meinong, Stein, Reinach, Twardowski, Ingarden, Scheler, Heidegger. \u00a0I\u2019d also be interested in a survey course on \u201cBritish\u201d idealism, which would cover people like Bradley, McTaggart, Calkins, Bosanquet, Royce. \u00a0Finally, at some point, I\u2019d like to develop a course on non-western metaphysics; I\u2019ve had some success teaching some Buddhist philosophy in my philosophy of religion courses, and it is a research interest of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I teach a wide range of classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. I enjoy teaching most areas of philosophy, especially those areas that *I* want to learn more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5309,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ndt4_page_lede":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","card-container","article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/kmcdaniel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}