Teaching
Paradox and Infinity Materials
See here for the class textbook. (And here for a list of errors.)
See here for an Open Courseware version of the class, which includes class handouts and problem sets.
See here for a MOOC version the class.
See here for an applet for visualizing Banach-Tarski rotations. (It was created in 2018 by Sydney Gibson, who was a student in Paradox and Infinity.)
See here for a note on Bacon’s Puzzle.
Spring 2021
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
Fall 2020
24.500 – Proseminar I
Spring 2019
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
Spring 2018
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
Spring 2017
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
Spring 2016
24.500 – Topics in Philosophy of Mind: Fragmentation (Tri-Seminar with Andy Egan and Adam Elga)
Fall 2015
24.400 – Proseminar I (with Jack Spencer)
Spring 2015
24.500 – Topics in Philosophy of Mind (with Alex Byrne)
24.401 – Proseminar II (with Sally Haslanger)
Fall 2014
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
Spring 2014
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
24.401 – Proseminar II (with Bob Stalnaker)
Spring 2013
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
24.401 – Proseminar II (with Alex Byrne)
January 2013
Gaos Lectures (UNAM)
Fall 2012
24.500 – Intentionality and Mental Representation (with Alex Byrne)
Spring 2012
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
Fall 2011
24.400 – Proseminar I (with Richard Holton)
24.501 – Representation and Fragmentation (with Adam Elga)
Spring 2011
24.400 – Proseminar II (with Bob Stalnaker)
Fall 2010
24.502 – The Limits of Rationality (with Caspar Hare)
Spring 2009
24.279 – Modeling Representation
Fall 2008
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
24.400 – Proseminar I (with Rae Langton)
Spring 2008
24.260 – Topics in Philosophy: David Lewis
Fall 2007
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
24.711 – Possibility and Content
Fall 2006
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
24.400 – Proseminar I (with Rae Langton)
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
24.118 – Paradox and Infinity
24.729 – Vagueness
Spring 2005
Phil 10 – Introduction to Logic
Phil 285 – A Vagueness Primer
Winter 2005
Phil 134 – Philosophy of Language
Fall 2004
Phil 120 – Symbolic Logic I