Teaching

As a Teaching Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, I was nominated for Edinburgh University Student Association Teaching Awards for Best Overall Teacher (2019) and Best Student Feedback (2018).

I also received a Student-Led Teaching Award for Outstanding Support for the Learning Experience of Students, voted for by students at the University of Sussex (2014).

I am currently teaching or have previously taught on the following courses.

University College Dublin

2025/26

• Mind, Language & Meaning  – Module Co-ordinator and Co-Lecturer, Level 1 Module

• Philosophy of Mind and AI – Module Co-ordinator, Lecturer and Tutor, Level 2 Module

• Philosophy of Perception and the Senses, Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Level 3 Module

• Topics in Philosophy of Mind and Cognition – Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Masters Module

2024/25

• Philosophy of Mind and AI – Module Co-ordinator, Lecturer and Tutor, Level 2 Module

• Philosophy of Perception and the Senses, Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Level 3 Module

• Topics in Philosophy of Mind and Cognition – Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Masters Module

2023/24

• Philosophy of Mind – Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Level 2 Module

• Philosophy of Science – Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, Level 2 Module

• Philosophy and Ethics of AI, Module Co-ordinator and Co-Lecturer, Level 3 Module

• Consciousness, Agency and the Self – Module Co-ordinator and Lecturer, MA/M.Sc. Module

University of Tübingen

2022

• Philosophy of Perception: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives – Lecturer, Co-Taught Masters and Ph.D. Course

University of Oslo

2021/22

• • • Philosophy of Psychology, FIL2108 – Lecturer, Co-Taught 2nd & 3rd Year Module

University of Edinburgh

2017–2018

• • • Mind, Matter and Language, PHIL08014 – Lecturer, Co-Taught 2nd Year Module

    • Metaphysics of Mind M.Sc., PHIL11066 – Module Convener and Seminar Leader, Masters Module

    • Perception and Action: From Inner Zombies to the Predictive Brain, PHIL10148 – Module Convener and Lecturer, Combined 3rd Year Honours and Masters

    • Philosophical Methods I MSc, PHIL11008 – Lecturer, Co-Taught Masters Module

    • M.Sc. Epistemology, Ethics and Mind – online seminars

University of Glasgow

2014–2016

• • • Philosophy of Mind – Co-Taught Masters Module

University of Sussex

2013/14

• • • Plato, V5015 – Module Convener, 2nd Year Module

    • Perception and Reality, V7082 – Module Convener and Lecturer, 2nd Year Module

    • Mind and Reality, 854V7 – Module Convener and Seminar Leader, Masters Module

    • Philosophy of Mind, V7078 – Module Convener and Lecturer, 2nd Year Module

    • Philosophy of Science, V7076 – Module Convener and Lecturer, 2nd Year Module

2012/13

• • • Philosophy of Mind, V7078 – Module Convener and Lecturer, 2nd Year Module

    • Philosophy of Science, V7076 – Module Convener and Lecturer, 2nd Year Module

    • Language and Truth, 841V7 – Co-Taught Masters Module

University of Warwick

2012/13

• • • Consciousness and Reality, PH238 – Seminar Tutor, 2nd & 3rd Year Module

2011/12

• • • Issues in Philosophy, PH121 – Seminar Tutor, 1st Year Module

    • Introduction to Symbolic Logic, PH121 – Seminar Tutor, 1st Year Module

    • Elements of Scientific Method, PH123 – Seminar Tutor, 1st Year Module

    • Meaning and Communication, PH130 – Seminar Tutor, 1st Year Module

2010/11

• • • Issues in Philosophy, PH121 – Seminar Tutor, 1st Year Module

    • Elements of Scientific Method, PH123 – Seminar Tutor, 1st Year Module

2009/10

• • • Issues in Philosophy, PH121 – Seminar Tutor, 1st Year Module

Supervision

Postgraduate

• • • Co-supervisor, Camden McKenna, Ph.D. thesis on temporal experience, University of Edinburgh, 2017–2022

    • Supervisor, Cognitive Science research projects, University College Dublin, 2023–2025

    • Supervisor, Reading & Research module, University College Dublin, 2023/24

    • Supervisor, Masters dissertations, University of Edinburgh, 2017–2018

    • Informal supervision of Ph.D. and visiting research students, University of Glasgow, 2014–2016

Undergraduate

• • • Supervisor, undergraduate research projects on the problem of consciousness and philosophy of AI, University College Dublin 2023/24

    • Co-supervisor, undergraduate dissertation on temporal experience, University of Oslo, 2020

    • Supervisor, undergraduate dissertations, University of Edinburgh, 2017–2018

    • Supervised undergraduate dissertations on: free will and the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of mental health, epiphenomenalism, University of Glasgow, 2014–2016