MATTHEW SIMPSON
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Teaching

I have taught at the University of Cambridge, University College London, and Central European University, Vienna, in a wide range of subjects to both undergraduate and graduate students. I have been nominated four times by students for teaching and pastoral awards at UCL and Cambridge. Below is a list of courses I have taught at these universities.

University of Cambridge
  • Lectures: Nature of Logic, Metaethics; Ethics of Knowing (third-year), Metaphysics of Modality; Knowledge and Doubt; Moral Psychology; Contractualism (second-year), Causal Theory of Names; Normative Ethics (first-year).
  • Undergraduate one-to-one tutorials in ethics, metaphysics, logic, epistemology, language; undergraduate and MPhil dissertation supervision
  • Discussion group leader and philosophy skills lectures, Philosophy and Public Affairs Module, MPhil Public Policy (Politics department; course leader Tom Dougherty, in 2015-16 and 2016-17)

Central European University, Vienna
  • Undergraduate: What is Morality? Theories in Metaethics; Meaning and Understanding
  • Graduate: Representation and Reality; Truth, Facts, and Properties; Doctoral Work in Progress Seminar

University College London
  • Course leader and examiner: 2nd year undergraduate: Knowledge; Truth, Facts, and Properties; Philosophy of Language; 3rd year undergraduate & graduate: Representation and Reality; Metaethics.
  • Master’s level: Research Preparation (MA), Practical Criticism (MPhil)
  • Supervision for third-year and MA dissertations; interim supervisor for two PhD students.

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